Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
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BornMay 25, 1803
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedApril 27, 1882
Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
Aged78 years
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, speaker, as well as poet that stayed in the 19th century. He was among one of the most influential figures in American literary and also cultural history, as well as his ideas as well as writings continue to be widely checked out and examined today.

Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts and also finished from Harvard University. He went on to end up being a preacher, however left the ministry to pursue a profession as a writer as well as audio speaker. He was a main number in the Transcendentalist movement, which was a thoughtful as well as literary motion that established in New England in the very early 19th century.

Emerson's essays and speeches usually focused on the relevance of the private as well as the individual's partnership to the divine. He counted on the integral benefits of individuals and also nature, and he urged individuals to trust their own instincts and also beliefs, instead of blindly adhering to the point of views of others. This suggestion of self-sufficiency is just one of his most renowned and also enduring principles.

Along with his writing, Emerson was also a popular speaker, and he provided talks throughout the United States and Europe on a vast array of topics, consisting of religious beliefs, politics, and also the duty of the person in society. He was a very early opponent of enslavement as well as a strong advocate for females's legal rights, and he utilized his system to promote these causes.

Emerson's works, including "Nature," "Self-direction," as well as "The American Scholar," continue to be commonly read and researched, and also his ideas concerning distinctiveness, self-sufficiency, as well as the power of nature continue to motivate individuals today. He is considered among the best authors in American literary history, and his heritage remains to form our understanding of the world and also our location in it.

Our collection contains 205 quotes who is written / told by Ralph, under the main topics: Motivational - Age - Friendship - Love - Travel.

Related authors: Henry David Thoreau (Author), Walter Savage Landor (Poet), Harold Bloom (Critic), Walt Whitman (Poet), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist), Raymond Holliwell (Author)

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205 Famous quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Small: We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which ther
"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities"
Small: Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding - Ralph Wal
"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding"
Small: Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words"
Small: Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know"
Small: Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich - R
"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich"
Small: Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others"
Small: Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the a
"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side"
Small: We must be our own before we can be anothers - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must be our own before we can be another's"
Small: We acquire the strength we have overcome - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We acquire the strength we have overcome"
Small: The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain"
Small: The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers"
Small: Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods"
Small: I have no hostility to nature, but a childs love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons
"I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons"
Small: For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose somethin
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else"
Small: What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered"
Small: Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great - Ralph Waldo Em
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great"
Small: Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"
Small: Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing"
Small: Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door"
Small: Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well"
Small: When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless"
Small: When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it"
Small: Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies"
Small: There is a tendency for things to right themselves - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a tendency for things to right themselves"
Small: The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society"
Small: Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect"
Small: Science does not know its debt to imagination - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Science does not know its debt to imagination"
Small: Nothing external to you has any power over you - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing external to you has any power over you"
Small: If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare - Ralph Waldo Eme
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare"
Small: I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching"
Small: For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind"
Small: Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors"
Small: Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think"
Small: You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late"
Small: Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year"
Small: With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now"
Small: Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom"
Small: Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change"
Small: Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?"
Small: We gain the strength of the temptation we resist - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist"
Small: We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body - Ralph Wald
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body"
Small: We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more"
Small: We are wiser than we know - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are wiser than we know"
Small: We are symbols, and inhabit symbols - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols"
Small: We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse"
Small: We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state"
Small: We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples"
Small: We are always getting ready to live but never living - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are always getting ready to live but never living"
Small: We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases"
Small: To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"
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