“A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us” and other Quotations by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous American philosopher, writer and poet. He was born in May 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson died April 27, 1882.
Emerson is remembered as one leader of the Transcendentalist movement.
Emerson was a gifted writer and orator and is often quoted. We have arranged here some of his more famous quotations for your pleasure.
And Now A few Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Quotes:
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Men are what their mothers made them.
He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere.
To fill the hour-that is happiness.
Never read a book that is not a year old.
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
