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
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Reality is a sliding door.
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.