Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books. — 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
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. — 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
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — 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
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine… — 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 whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — 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
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. — 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
Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from… — 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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