Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and...

More quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen?

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

—Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

—Matthew Arnold

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

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