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
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.
Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
Insist upon yourself. Be original.
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.