Emerson Quotes

68 Emerson quotes by 51 unique authors

It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is… — E. M. Forster
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White. — Karen Duffy
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. — Howard Mumford Jones
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William… — Howard Mumford Jones
Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy. — Rainn Wilson
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American… — Marilynne Robinson
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.- Ralph Waldo Emerson — Aroha Janet
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson One problem with gazing too frequently into… — Michael Cibenko
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach much which the days never know. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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