Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reality is a sliding door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
