A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Happy Hearing Man Speaking Unhappy

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

Bertrand Russell

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

Richard Flanagan

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

Norman MacCaig

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

Giacomo Casanova

Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Voltaire

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Boethius

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

Woodrow Wilson

There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.