Ralph Waldo Emerson
459 quotations
There is no one who does not exaggerate!
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
There is always a best way of doing everything.
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
The more experiments you make the better.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
The eye is easily frightened.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Whatever limits us we call fate.
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.