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
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)
The surest poison is time.
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.