Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom Quotes

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius."

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within."

"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

"The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and the certainties of day."

"The years teach much which the days never know."

"Whatever game you play with, fate will at last be the winner."

"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

"All that is made of the angels is but the shadow of the soul."

"The world makes way for the man who knows whither he is going."

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness."

"The growth of the intellect is strictly analogous in all its stages to the growth of the body."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Power is in nature the essential measure of right."

"The soul is no traveler; the wise man stays at home."

"New arts destroy the old. See the foam which the ship leaves short-lived on the sea."

"The first wealth is health."

"Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven."

"The earth laughs in flowers."

"Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess today the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow, when we are building up our being."

"Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

"The things which are taught children are not the things that will be of most use to them."

"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."