EMERSON QUOTES

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



Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

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


 

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 


The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



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



America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



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

 

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson




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



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


 

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

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


 

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




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

 

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