Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. >>

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. >>

Our best history is still poetry. >>

Quotations about Taste

Taste has no system and no proofs. >>

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry >>

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. >>

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo