Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. — 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
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is rare to find a man who believes in his own thoughts or speaks that which he is created to say.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very… — 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
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has… — 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
