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“The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it”: Well-Known Quotations by American Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson is a famous US philosopher, author and poet. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in May 1803. Emerson died April 1882 at the age of 78.

Emerson is remembered as one thought-leader of the Transcendentalist movement.

Emerson was a gifted writer and orator and is very often quoted in print and in speeches. We have arranged some of his more famous quotations for your pleasure.

And Now The Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The world belongs to the energetic.

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Imitation is suicide.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.

What we call results are beginnings.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.

I like to have a man’s knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Give all to love obey thy heart.

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