Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Truth (33 Quotes)

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.... Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore

Truth is too simple for us we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

He in whom the love of truth predominates ... submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion but he is a candidate for truth ... and respects the highest law of his being.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

For me, commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys

The gentleman is a man of truth.

Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you pleaseyou can never have both.

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

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis mans perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.'

It came into him life, it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions it went from him poetry. It was a dead fact now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in porportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it live.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

Truth is our element.

We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons.

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

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.