Quotes by Lecturers - Page 8

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Culture with us ends in headache.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fail?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are reformers in spring and summer in autumn and winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night. Reform is affirmative conservatism negative conservatism goes for comfort reform for truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the poor man cannot always get meat the rich man cannot always digest it.
Henry Giles
Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.
Josh Billings
Character is that which can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We change whether we like it or not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Josh Billings
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression tires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The flowering of geometry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sensible person ever made an apology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is a country of young men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is time to be old To take in sail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants and I give it to him.
Josh Billings
Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
Ralph Waldo Emerson