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Letter "R" » Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
«Invention breeds invention.»
«The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.»
«Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.»
«Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.»
«Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.»
«Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.»
«The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.»
«It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.»
«Genius Borrows nobly.»
«There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.»
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