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
A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
God hid the whole world in thy heart.
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.
I like people who like Plato.
There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark