Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Vision

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Frustrated, Vision

  1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

• When there is no vision, people perish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Vision, Visualization

• What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smart, Role Models, Addiction

• 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

• We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Vision, Clear Vision

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Art, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.158

• Where there is no vision a people perish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Innovation, Insightful

• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Vision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

• Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

• An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

• Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Vision, World

• What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3078, Delphi Classics

• Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Men, Visions Of The Future

• Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Sunset, Vision

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.242, Modern Library

• By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Agreement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (189?). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

• Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Spiritual, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

• For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Real, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.89, Library of America

• Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Cities, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.542, Library of America

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