Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We do not like those who unmask our illusions.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.