One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

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...

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden...

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the...

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with...

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with...

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be...

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is...

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted

Difficulties exist to be surmounted

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's...

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's...

Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel,...

Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel,...