Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Confession

• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, I Hate You

• In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, People, Warning

• The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Age, Experience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.188, Penguin

• A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.319, Library of America

• The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Spring, Moving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.410

• Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, World, Opinion

• The poem is a confession of faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confession

• A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.416, Modern Library

• Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Men, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.387

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