Truth Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”

“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.”

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.”

“We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.”

“Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;”

“Let us not give way to the temptations of a false self and the illusions of an inflated reality, but let us highlight our deeper self's authenticity and forward the truth of our words and the straightness of our actions. ("With confidence")”

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

“The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.”

“People at war with themselves will always cause collateral damage in the lives of those around them.”