Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson