Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes And Sayings

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“We are wiser than we know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows…”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only true gift is a portion of thyself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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