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7190 quotesPeople do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Change
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Poetry and Poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.
Gentlemen
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Education
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
Minorities
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
Equality
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
Manners
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Influence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Self-reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Will and Will Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
Eloquence
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Humankind
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
Morality
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Farming and Farmers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
Spirit and Spirituality
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
Victory
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
Preachers and Preaching
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Beginning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
Trust
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Familiarity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
Law and Lawyers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun