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title: "24 Foolish Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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> [Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/foolish-consistencies-are-the-hobgoblins-of-small-minds/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-always-consists-in-the-greatest-part-of-young-and-foolish/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-foolish-man-wonders-at-the-unusual-but-the-wise-man-at-the-usual/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-wise-know-that-foolish-legislation-is-a-rope-of-sand-which/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-does-not-to-dwell-on-dreams-and-forget-to-live-but-it-is-equally/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-sentiment-of-virtue-is-a-reverence-and-delight-in-the-presence-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/only-be-admonished-by-what-you-already-see-not-to-strike-leagues-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/people-suffer-all-their-life-long-under-the-foolish-superstition-that/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-not-so-foolish-as-to-declaim-against-forms-forms-are-as/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-adored-by-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/foolish-whenever-you-take-the-meanness-and-formality-of-that-thing/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/at-the-gates-of-the-forest-the-surprised-man-of-the-world-is-forced-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/expediency-of-literature-reason-of-literature-lawfulness-of-writing/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-soul-is-the-perceiver-and-revealer-of-truth-we-know-truth-when-we-3/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/but-the-wise-know-that-foolish-legislation-is-a-rope-of-sand-which/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/sport-is-the-bloom-and-glow-of-a-perfect-health-the-great-will-not/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/men-are-not-philosophers-but-are-rather-very-foolish-children-who-by/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-always-consists-in-greatest-part-of-young-and-foolish-persons/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/at-the-gates-of-the-forest-the-surprised-man-of-the-world-is-forced/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/do-not-tell-me-of-my-obligation-to-put-all-poor-men-in-good/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-long-ere-we-discover-how-rich-we-are-our-history-we-are-sure-is/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-country-customs-laws-our-ambitions-and-our-notions-of-fit-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-a-mortifying-experience-in-particular-which-does-not-fail-to/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-adored-by/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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## Other authors on Foolish

## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson

> [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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