Sayings and Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes collection
Always do what you are afraid to do.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

What your heart thinks is great, is great.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The less government we have the better.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

All diseases run into one, old age.

We boil at different degrees.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Money often costs too much.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Blame is safer than praise.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.