Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ide >>

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. >>

The virtue in most request is conformity. >>

Quotations about Facts

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning >>

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. >>

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head th >>

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo