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

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Judgement Quotes

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

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

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing,...

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing,...

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

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...

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect,...

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect,...

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down;...

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down;...

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature,...

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature,...

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down...

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down...

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Every wall is a door.

Every wall is a door.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at...

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at...

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them...