People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“so much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Its light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is… — 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. — 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
