Some important quotations of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Every sweet has its sour; every evit its good.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.