138 quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“God enters by a private door into every individual.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nature hates calculators.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Pictures must not be too picturesque.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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