Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to love God without mediator or veil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be poised, wise and our own today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson