Quote

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

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
Good
Number
Numbers
Greatest
Wisdom
Hours
Live

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Happy is the hearing man unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson