Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reality is a sliding door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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