Emerson Quotes...

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
(my favorite)

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.


Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.


I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.


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


In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.


It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson