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
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Real action is in silent moments.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
Thought is the seed of action.
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.