My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art. From the first imitative babble of a child… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead,… — 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
