Funny Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

My giant goes with me wherever I go.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We find in life exactly what we put into it

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like man, but not men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We never touch but at points.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do your thing, and I shall know you.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God hides things by putting them near us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which builds is better than that which is built.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have more than we use.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one suspects the days to be gods.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no history; only biography.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty rests on necessities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like people who can do things

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society has no bribe for me...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Immitation is suicide.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you do, you need courage.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When half-gods go The gods arrive.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is great who confers the most benefits.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The student is to read history actively not passively.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson