Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Imagination

• Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Imagination

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.478, Рипол Классик

• 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

• The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Quality, Flow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.170, Penguin

• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

• That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Imagination, Coaching

• Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Eye, Usa

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.465, Library of America

• We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Admiration, Live By

• The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Yield

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

• Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235

• The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Imagination, Fantasy

• There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Law, Imagination

• Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Imagination

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.30, Editora Dracaena

• Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Reality, Imagination

• A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Strong, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.346

• The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Hero, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2316, Delphi Classics

• Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Imagination, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2539, Delphi Classics

• A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Intelligent, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.434

• Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Imagination, Seeing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.194, Penguin

• Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Path, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.75, Courier Corporation

• There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Memorable, Imagination

  "The Conduct of Life".

• There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Looks, Youth

• Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Sky, Imagination

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.33

• Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Imagination, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

• The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Imagination, Employment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1180, Delphi Classics

• The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1619, Delphi Classics

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