Ralph Waldo Emerson
459 quotations
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Every advantage has its tax.
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
Thought makes every thing fit for use.
To think is to act.
A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
A man's what he thinks about all day long
We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
The surest poison is time.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.