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
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books...
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.
A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.