Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The first wealth is health.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Men are what their mothers made them.

What you are comes to you.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.