Ralph Waldo Emerson

(319 votes)   Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(48 votes)   One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(45 votes)   It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(686 votes)   The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(643 votes)   To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(557 votes)   If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(503 votes)   I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(493 votes)   The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(479 votes)   Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(467 votes)   The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(459 votes)   What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(457 votes)   Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(455 votes)   The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(438 votes)   The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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