Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Action Quotes

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time...

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time...

Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.

Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for...

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for...

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and...

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Wherever there is power there is age.

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow...

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow...

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Knowledge exists to be imparted

Knowledge exists to be imparted

A man is a God in ruins.

A man is a God in ruins.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have...

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have...

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph...

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph...

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision...

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision...

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and...

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and...