Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson