Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

  • Imitation cannot go above its model. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Imitation cannot go above its model.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • A man is known by the books he reads. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    A man is known by the books he reads.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. – – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. –– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • One idea lights a thousand candles. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    One idea lights a thousand candles.– Ralph Waldo Emerson