241 Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson


The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on patience

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on peace

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on peace

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on peace

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on peace

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on peace

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on power

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on power

Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on power

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on science

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

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

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on science

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on society

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on society

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on society

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

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on strength

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on strength