Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Self Reliance Quotes

Self-trust is the first secret of success

Self-trust is the first secret of success

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Children are all foreigners.

Children are all foreigners.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes...

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and...

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for...

Art is the path of the creator to his work

Art is the path of the creator to his work

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life.

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil