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
All mankind love a lover.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
A great man is always willing to be little.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.