Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of t

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is o

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson