Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Wisdom

The years teach much which the days never know.

Our distrust is very expensive.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.