Faith Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…

— Daniel Dennett

“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act…

— G.K. Chesterton

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my…

— Daniel Webster