Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 5

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Art quotes.

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Death quotes.

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are prisoners of ideas."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Now everyone must do after his kind, be he asp or angle."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The world belongs to the energetic."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in World quotes.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Lies quotes.

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Common Sense quotes.

"Nature: I give to thee for thy defence Thy formidable innocence."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in God quotes.

"The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Force quotes.

"Give all to love; obey thy heart."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Patriotism quotes.

"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Words quotes.

"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Chaos quotes.

"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Imagination quotes.

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Courage quotes.

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

". . .but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first wealth is health."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson in Wealth quotes.