Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

The years teach much which the days never know.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

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.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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

The earth laughs in flowers.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

All diseases run into one, old age.

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

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.