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 desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
We are wiser than we know.
Real action is in silent moments.
Money often costs too much.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.