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
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.
The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Excellence is the new forever.
Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.