Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes.

1. "What you do speaks so loud, I can not hear what you say."
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. "Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. "It is said to be the age of the first person singular"
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. "Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. "One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. "Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something."
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. "How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew"
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. "thought can never ripen into truth."
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. "This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labour shall go to this or that whimsical end, not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence. Of all debts, men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money's worth, except for these. Hence, the less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation. That which all things tend to educe, which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of nature, to reach unto this coronation of her king. To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary. The wise man is the State. He needs no army, fort, or navy, - he loves men too well; no bribe, or feast, or palace, to draw friends to him; no vantage ground, no favourable circumstance. He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is a prophet; no statute book, for he has the lawgiver; no money, for he is value; no road, for he is at home where he is; no experience, for the life of the creator shoots through him, and looks from his eyes. He has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him, needs not husband and educate a few, to share with him a select and poetic life. His relation to men is angelic; his memory is myrrh to them; his presence, frankincense and flowers."
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. "Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility."
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson