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
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — 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
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
Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions — 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
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
“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
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. — 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
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory,… — 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
