241 Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson


All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on love

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on love

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on love

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on love

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on love

Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

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

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on men