Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson