American poet, philosopher, lecturer, and essayist of 19th century America.
An isolated and self-sufficient individual deeply involved in study of his social relationships, anti-slavery activity and
focus on his mature ethical thought.
His essays can be appreciated for their imaginative, paradoxical, accumulative and analogical rhetoric. This great man had a
strong influence on American poetry, his connections with the later philosophical movement of pragmatism, and his contributions
to the theory of democracy are remembered.
(1803-1882)
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust
you with a friendship.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -- "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a progress, and not a station.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the essense of heroism.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skill to do comes of doing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they
prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is one of the all-time masters of horror and the macabre. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror,
the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien.
He wrote fantasy and horror in the best tradition of Poe, Blackwood, and Machen. His own style gained many admirers and was later imitated by others.
(1890 - 1937)
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
~ Carl Sagan
The difference between what the most and the least learned people
know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
~ Albert Einstein
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
