Opinion Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every reform was once a private opinion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he…

— 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…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;and thatis…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson