Ralph Waldo Emerson
459 quotations
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
Travel is a fools paradise.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
There is always safety in valor.
Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
Wherever work is done, victory is attained.
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.