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
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.
Tis good-will makes intelligence.
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful
Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.