Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The highest revelation is that God is in every man. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Related Quotes:

" Power and speed be hands and feet. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Men are what their mothers made them. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" To be great is to be misunderstood. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The earth laughs in flowers. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Hitch your wagon to a star. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson