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
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.