Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson