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
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities