139 quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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“All diseases run into one, old age.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Science does not know its debt to imagination.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Genius always finds itself a century too early.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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