The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men… — 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
