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 invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
Poverty consist in feeling poor.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow