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
Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.
You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power
And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.
A system-grinder hates the truth.
A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.
History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons
Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.
Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.
Do what you're afraid to do.