Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Perspective

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

• What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Perspective, Fearlessness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.271, Penguin

• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Perspective, Goodness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.171, Harvard University Press

• If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, Perspective

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.208, Penguin

• What we call results are beginnings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Perspective, Results

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.49

• Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Perspective, Glimpse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Harvard University Press

• It is the eye which makes the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Perspective, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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