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
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Cunning is strength withheld.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.
The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.
A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.
My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination