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

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”

“Language is fossil Poetry.”

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”

“I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.”

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

“Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is health of every man.”

“Hidup hanya ada erti pada yang bahagia.”

“The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.”

“They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.”

“Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.”

“Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”

“All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.”