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
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.
Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.
You cannot see the mountain near...
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
Great thoughts ensure musical expression.
Concentration is the secret of srength.