Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
WHAT lies behind us and WHAT before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others. — 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
