Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872. Vol. 3, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910, p. 521.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David. This quotation urges a leader to avoid advisors and appointees who do not tell the truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
