Quote

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

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
Travel
Baby
Visits
Learned
Voluntarily
Language
Tourism
Makes
Helpless
Country
Witty
Great
Ridiculous
Men
Otherwise

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Life only avails, not the having lived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Art is a jealous mistress and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
People say law but they mean wealth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear and you shall never find that perception again never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself when he loses himself in the crowd when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
All great men come out of the middle classes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.
Ralph Waldo Emerson