Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.
Interpretation
The quote encourages a mindset of continuous exploration and questioning without succumbing to external influences or rigid beliefs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of maintaining a curious and inquisitive attitude towards life. He advocates for intellectual independence, suggesting that individuals should avoid being swayed by societal pressures or dogmatic thinking, and instead, remain committed to exploring their own understanding and beliefs.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of critical thinking in education.
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?
Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
My Brain is the key that sets me free.
Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--
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