About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as...
More quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
More quotations tagged with “courage”
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
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