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God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you pleaseyou can never have both. [Essay on Intellect] — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
thought can never ripen into truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gentleman is a man of truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of truth is cold.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful, no doubt; but so are lies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Say to them, O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to itelse it is none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the summit of being.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A system-grinder hates the truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first point of courtesy must always be truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For he that feeds men serveth few;He serves all who dares be true. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Convert life into truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -"Let there be truth between us two forevermore." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson