Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
The eye is easily frightened.
The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.
God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.