The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only so much of life do I know as I have lived. ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson