Ralph Waldo Emerson Needs Quotations

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

If you want a friend you need to be a friend.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.