Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson