Ralph Waldo Emerson Foundation
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds….”
—From Self-Reliance
"All life is an experiment."
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
“Children are all foreigners.”
“Envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide.”
—From Self-Reliance
“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
“…No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
“Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.”
—From Self-Reliance
“The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.”
—From Nature
“…The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
—From Self-Reliance
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