“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson.” — Lorenz Font Copy Share Image
“Environmentalist Paul Hawken, in the 2009 commencement address to the University of Portland, said, “Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would… — Paul J. Pastor Copy Share Image
President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character, Deceive us, seeming to be… — Laura K. Cowan Copy Share Image
“Remember, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Don’t be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Don't follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ralph Waldo Emerson had this truth in mind when he said (in his essay on Compensation), “If you serve an ungrateful master,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson” — Improve Life Books Copy Share Image
What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“There was something else amusing about the house: the irony that the most important battle of the American Revolution--the shoot-out at the… — Josh Barkan Copy Share Image
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“She had made the observation several years before to a startled Waldo Emerson that “women are Slaves.” Married women in particular—and that… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death] — John Muir Copy Share Image
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson I” — Chade-Meng Tan Copy Share Image
The years teach much which the days never know. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. —RALPH WALDO… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
