Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson