Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Wisdom

• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.60, Penguin

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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

• All life is an experiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

• 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

• Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Taken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3128, Delphi Classics

• Knowledge is the antidote to fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tattoo, Spiritual, Wisdom

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

• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, University of Georgia Press

• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

• The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

• 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

• Life is a festival only to the wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, North Atlantic Books

• Self trust is the essence of heroism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Running, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Time, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

• Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Time, Future

• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

• Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Pain, Essence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.142, Open Road Media

• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, University of Georgia Press

• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

• A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Success, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.656, Modern Library

• Wise men are not wise at all times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

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