Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The primary wisdom is intuition.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the antidote to fear
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson