Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Life Quotes, Wise Quotes

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

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Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

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It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

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