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
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
What we call results are beginnings.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
There is always a best way of doing everything.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.