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
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
a good reader makes a good book
You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.
Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.
Life is too short to waste.
Who loses a day loses life.