“If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being” and other Quotes by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous US philosopher, poet and essayist. Emerson was born in Massachusetts in 1803. He died in 1882 at the age of 78 in Concord, Massachusetts.
Emerson is remembered as one leader of the American Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a talented writer and orator and is very often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected here a collection of his most famous quotes for your reading pleasure.
The Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations:
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
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.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
Men are what their mothers made them.
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
I used to always think that I’d look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I’d look back on us laughing and cry.
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