We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it sh…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
2017 citations
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). Emerson's Essays: Top Essays, p.96, 谷月社
Love
28

More Author Quotes

There is always a best way of doing everything. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations, p.380
For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously fro … ▶
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and … ▶
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). Nature, Addresses and Lectures, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). Emerson's Essays: Top Essays, p.96, 谷月社

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes