Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is our dictionary.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson