• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes   4214
  • Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Distance Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Light Quotes
  • The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Happiness Quotes
  • Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Men Quotes