Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path...

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force -...

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

#Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

#Ralph Waldo Emerson