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
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
A man's what he thinks about all day long
A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Music causes us to think eloquently.
Thoughts rule the world.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.