Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" A man is what he thinks about all day long. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He
About
Thinks
Related Quotes:
" No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great
Man
Opportunity
" Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
Rich
Producer
" Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common Sense
Society
Always
" Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Colors
Spirit
Wears
" Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gods
Us
Silent
" People only see what they are prepared to see. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People
See
Prepared
" The earth laughs in flowers. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth
Nature
Flowers
" Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
Hearing
Happy
" Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners
Fine
Support
" Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Must
Truth
Cannot
" We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Face
See
Savor
" We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
Born
Believing
" Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good
Doing
Doing Good
" Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature
Mind
World
" The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being
Secret
Ugliness
" Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generation
Next
Own
" Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will
World
Better
" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little
Consistency
Foolish
" The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best
Tricks
Fox
" The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will
Explain
Number
" Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Patience
Her
" Genius always finds itself a century too early. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius
Too
Intelligence
" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Goodness
Root
" Children are all foreigners. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Foreigners
Children
" For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tax
You
Receive
" Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace
You
Yourself
" Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe
Luck
Men
" In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taught
Private
Doctrine
" Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing
Haste
Manners
" The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gold
Desire
Means