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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1-40
1 Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
2 We acquire the strength we have overcome.
3 Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
4 The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
5 All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
6 Nothing external to you has any power over you.
7 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
8 Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
9 Earth laughs in flowers.
10 The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
11 I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
12 Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
13 You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
14 Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one.
15 The invariable mark of wisdom is to see that miraculous on the common.
16 A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
17 We must be our own before we can be another's.
18 Every hero becomes a bore at last.
19 Trust your instinct to the end, through you can render no reason.
20 In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
21 A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
22 We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
23 The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
24 Everything in nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
25 Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
26 Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
27 No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
28 For every minute you remain angry, you five up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
29 Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
30 It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
31 What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
32 Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
33 I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
34 O day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
35 The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
36 A man is what he thinks about all day long.
37 Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
38 The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
39 Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
40 Win as of you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed if for a change.
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