Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Interpretation
Curiosity drives the pursuit of knowledge and understanding, always seeking the hidden truths.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that curiosity is an inherent quality that compels individuals to explore and uncover secrets hidden in the world around them. It emphasizes the idea that a curious mind is always on the lookout for new discoveries, insights, and deeper understanding, thus leading to personal growth and enlightenment.
In practice
In a presentation on scientific discovery, one might use this quote to inspire a sense of wonder and investigation.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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