We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and… — 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
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them… — 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
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world—this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — 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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