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
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.