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
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
Every reform was once a private opinion.
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
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