We expect a great man to be a good reader.
Interpretation
Great individuals are often well-read and knowledgeable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that to achieve greatness, one should cultivate a habit of reading. This reflects the idea that reading broadens the mind, provides wisdom, and nurtures the qualities that lead to personal and professional success.
In practice
In a speech about personal development, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, we expect a great man to be a good reader, emphasizing the importance of 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?
Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.
We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.
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