241 Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson


The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on health

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on imagination

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on intelligence

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on intelligence

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on intelligence

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on knowledge

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on learning

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on learning

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

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 life

As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on life