All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
