Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought. — 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
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. — 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
The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read… — 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
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach… — 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
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
Sin seen from the thought, is a diminution or less: seen from the conscience or will, itis pravity or bad. The intellectnames… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn… — 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
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle,… — 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
“Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — 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
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. — 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
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. — 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
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
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. — 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