"We judge of man's wisdom by his hope." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We judge of man's wisdom by his hope."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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More Hope Quotes

This quote is filed under Hope Quotes, one of 13,380 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving… — Arthur Ashe
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can… — Julian Assange
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason… — David Attenborough
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say… — David Attenborough
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to… — David Attenborough
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race -… — Margaret Atwood

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