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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Debt
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Temptation, Gain
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Nothing, Sense
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number, Clean, Shirts
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, Means, Desire
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Done, Reward
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another, Dream, Illusion
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old, Getting, Older
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Strong, Show
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work, Whiskey, Cure
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
End, Human, Die
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strength, Overcome, Acquire
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two, Fact, Cause
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, Mind, Cannot
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great, Power, Wisdom
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age, Rather, Write
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hate, Tell, Quotations
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Love, Men
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Pictures
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Nothing, Christian
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth, Flowers, Laughs
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Him, Goes, Principle
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Fact, Natural
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mind, Nothing, Integrity
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prepared

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Biography

Nationality: American
Type: Poet
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882

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