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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson 121-160
121 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.
122 If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
123 What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
124 Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
125 Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
126 The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
127 Always do what you are afraid to do.
128 Money often costs too much.
129 Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
130 The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
131 Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
132 A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
133 The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
134 Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
135 He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
136 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
137 People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
138 There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
139 Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
140 No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
141 We are wiser than we know.
142 Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
143 The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
144 Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
145 Our best thoughts come from others.
146 Pictures must not be too picturesque.
147 Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
148 God enters by a private door into every individual.
149 There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
150 A great man is always willing to be little.
151 The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
152 Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
153 We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
154 Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
155 Truth is handsomer than the affection of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
156 Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
157 As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
158 I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
159 The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
160 Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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