Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on travel   

"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on travel   

"Travel is a fools paradise."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on travel   

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on travel   

"No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on travel   

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth
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"The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"All necessary truth is its own evidence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ugliness   

"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on understanding   

"Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uniqueness   

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"I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on upbringing   

"There is always safety in valor."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on valor   

"Valor consists in the power of self recovery."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on valor   

"The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on value   

"Wherever work is done, victory is attained."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory   

"The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory
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"No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory   

"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory   

"As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on villains   

"The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

"The virtue in most request is conformity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

"The only reward of virtue is virtue."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

"The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

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"Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on vision
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"Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on vision   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on vision
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"A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on voice   

"Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on want
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