Category: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature hates calculators.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson