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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's response is always right.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
• Beware when the great God lets loose a genius upon the world.
  Then all things are at risk. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for youin your private heart is true for all men- that is genius.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
• Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist... Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
• I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• Always do what you are afraid to do. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
• To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Essays", 1841