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
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
You cannot make a cheap palace.
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?