“What a new face courage puts on everything” and other Quotes by Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous American poet, philosopher and author. He was born in May 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson died April 1882.
Emerson is remembered as one thought-leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a talented writer and is very often quoted. We have collected several of his more famous quotations for your pleasure.
And Now Some Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotations:
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Insist on yourself never imitate… Every great man is unique.
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