Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 64

• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Listening, Speech, Hearing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.293, Penguin

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• Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Women, Men, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.231, Harvard University Press

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• Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Science, Men

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

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• The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Graphic Arts Books

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• The eye is easily frightened.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Frightened

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• In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Nature, Real

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Saving The Earth, Mother Earth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Choices, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cute, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, University of Georgia Press

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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• The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optimism, Soul, Limits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.147, Penguin

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• 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

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• A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Intuition, Instinct

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Harvard University Press

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• Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Lines

  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.254, Harvard University Press

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• The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Adventure, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Magic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glowing, Experience, Audience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.77, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• We are the prisoners of ideas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Conflict, Prisoner

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

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• The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Certain, Secret To Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.115, Open Road Media

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• Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Secret, Identity

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• Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Death, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.306, University of Missouri Press

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• In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.378, Modern Library

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• All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Doe, Dishonesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1446, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Trying, Action

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