The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear — 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
“The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin. — 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
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
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That… — 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
“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,… — 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
The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is… — 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
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions. — 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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