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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
“God enters by a private door into every individual.”
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”
“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”
“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”
“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”
“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
“We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”
“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.”
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
“Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.”
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.”