Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Age Quotes

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

Imitation is suicide

Imitation is suicide

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will...

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will...

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but...

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself,...

It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself,...

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I...

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to...