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The quotations of

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher

1803–1882

102 quotes, most often on Friendship, Nature and Beauty. Part of the Poets collection.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
- Thinking
Our best thoughts come from others.
- Thinking
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.
The American Scholar (1837), par. 20
- Thinking
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another’s dogmatism.
Literary Ethics (1838)
- Advice
- Thinking
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,⁠—that is genius.
Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Genius
- Thinking
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Thinking
- Wisdom

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