Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the… — 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
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