Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Men are what their mothers made them,

but fathers shape their character.

The value of a dollar is social,

as it is created by society.

Revolutions go not backward.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Our faith comes in moments;

our vice is habitual.

All diseases run into one,

old age.

Nature hates calculators.

I think we must get rid of slavery,

or we must get rid of freedom.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Our best thoughts come from others.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Every known fact in natural science

was divined by the presentiment of somebody,

before it was actually verified.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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

Life is our dictionary.

There is always safety in valor.

We see God face to face every hour,

and know the savor of Nature.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.