"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (page 159 of 211)
4.2K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed."
Read quote
3 likes
"The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth."
Read quote
3 likes
"We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth."
Read quote
3 likes
"Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God."
Read quote
3 likes
"First be a good animal."
Read quote
3 likes
"Under every deep a lower deep opens."
Read quote
3 likes
"A great teacher makes hard things easy."
Read quote
3 likes
"Make youself necessary to someone."
Read quote
3 likes
"The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without."
Read quote
3 likes
"Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character."
Read quote
3 likes
"Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see."
Read quote
3 likes
"It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them."
Read quote
3 likes
"No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All."
Read quote
3 likes
"What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours."
Read quote
3 likes
"The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude."
Read quote
3 likes
"A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light."
Read quote
3 likes
"To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room."
Read quote
3 likes
"Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate."
Read quote
3 likes