Quotes
Quotes - Emerson
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
Our best thoughts come from others.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.
Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
There is always safety in valor.
Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
