Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Physician
Organ
Physicians
Organs
Woman
Men
Amplification
More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward in talent from without inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Literature is eavesdropping.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man can have society upon his own terms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The city is recruited from the country.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live ruins amid ruins.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are the prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
