Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Values

• Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Advice

  As quoted in "Think", Vol. 4-5, (p. 32), 1938.

• Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Time

• What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Communication

• Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Skills, Depends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.224, Library of America

• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Good Life, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

• All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Perseverance, Life And Love

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

• But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1921). “Representative men. Miscellanies”

• Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hunting, Land, Shopping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.216, Library of America

• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, World, Judgment

• The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Soul, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.57, Library of America

• When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

• The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Numbers, Principles, Values

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

• The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Facts, Chiefs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1421, Delphi Classics

• I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.259, Library of America

• Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Healing, Practice, Criticism

  Essays (Second series) 'Nominalist and Realist'

• Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.153, Courier Corporation

• I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Men, Shoes

  "English Traits". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856.

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Dollars, Injustice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.352

• The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

• The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Gone, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.252, Penguin

• The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Invention, Inventor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.146, Harvard University Press

• Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Play, Poetry, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.193, Harvard University Press

• The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Knowing, Dimes

  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.236, Harvard University Press

• A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, People, Would Be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

• He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Home, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.332, Harvard University Press

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