Cool Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know
 
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
 
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
 
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
 
We boil at different degrees.
 
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
 
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
 
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
 
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
 
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.