Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Eyes

• This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smile, Confidence, Patience

• The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Soul, Lazy Eyes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2329, Delphi Classics

• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Nature, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.385, Penguin

• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

• A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Love You, Heart

• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Gratitude, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

• You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, People, Looks

• We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.76, Courier Corporation

• When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Communication, Humor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

• Eyes...They speak all languages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Language, Speak

• ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Real, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1345, Delphi Classics

• Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Nature, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, Harvard University Press

• If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Intelligent, Men

• When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Beautiful, Eye

• Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Strong, Eye

• If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Beauty, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.75, David R. Godine Publisher

• Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Eye, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

• The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Eye, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

• To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

• A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Eye, Men

• We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Horse, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

• What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Eye, My Friends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

• The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.201, Penguin

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