A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to-… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
