Quote

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Measured
Lightning
Enthusiasm
Horse
Understanding
Power
Leaping

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Be yourself no base imitator of another, but your best self.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
It is not an arbitrary decree of God, but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Who loses a day loses life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The Gods we worship write their names on our faces be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I am become a transparent eyeball.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon flat and weak negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson