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
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes about
There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
A man's what he thinks about all day long
For everything you have missed you have gained something
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life; nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.
There can be no high civility without a deep morality
You cannot make a cheap palace.
Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.