Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Silence

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Silence, Soul

"Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity".

Real action is in silent moments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real, Silence, Action

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving, Silence, Personality

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.426, Library of America

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Men, Silence

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.160, Harvard University Press

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence, Suffering, Path

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.298, Modern Library

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acceptance, Silence, World

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pain, Poetry, Silence

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2415, Delphi Classics

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Church Service, Silence

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.175, Harvard University Press

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence, Shame, Discourse

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1387, Delphi Classics

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence, Speech, Silence Is

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.274

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Distance, Perfect, Silence

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.192, Harvard University Press

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence, Return, Degrees

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lying, Silence, Facts

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1175, Delphi Classics