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
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
Accept your genius and say what you think.
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.
The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Genius is power, talent is applicability.
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
Genius Borrows nobly.
The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend