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
What you do speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.
Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right.
There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there
Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion.
What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire
If you can do a thing once, you can do it twice. If you can do it twice, you can make a habit out of it