Top 500 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

302. “The sun shines today also.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

303. “A man’s library is a sort of harem.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

304. “Common sense is as rare as genius.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

305. “Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

306. “Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

307. “Living without Laughing isn’t living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

308. “The force of character is cumulative.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

309. “Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

310. “Pride ruined the angels.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

311. “For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

312. “Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

313. “The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

314. “Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

315. “We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

316. “We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

317. “But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

318. “It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

319. “Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

320. “Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

321. “The first point of courtesy must always be truth.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

322. “The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

323. “The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

324. “America is another name for opportunity.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

325. “I am become a transparent eyeball...”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

326. “To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

327. “The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

328. “A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

329. “As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

330. “There is always safety in valor.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

331. “Imitation cannot go above its model.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

332. “Real men don’t conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

333. “The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

334. “When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

335. “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch...”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

336. “Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

337. “Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

338. “First be a good animal.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

339. “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

340. “Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

341. “We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

342. “Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

343. “Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

344. “Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

345. “Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

346. “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

347. “Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

348. “The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

349. “The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

350. “Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson