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 prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and...
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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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