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
Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.
By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.