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
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Nature hates calculators.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Children are all foreigners.
Power and speed be hands and feet.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.