Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Every wall is a door.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

All mankind love a lover.

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.