 |
Famous Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
 A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. 
A good intention clothes itself with power.
A great man is always willing to be little.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
A mans growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...
Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done somethingstrange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Fear always springs from ignorance
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
| 1 | 2 | » |
|
