Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Quote More from Ralph Waldo Emerson “Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery tha…” “the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness …” “I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I …” “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the n…”