All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Interpretation
Life is a series of experiments, and making more of them leads to improvement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of experimentation in life, suggesting that every experience contributes to our knowledge and growth. By engaging in various experiments, whether in thought, action, or exploration, we refine our understanding and enhance our capabilities, ultimately leading to a richer and more fulfilling existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to take risks in their careers.
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?
Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.
Everyday is a new life to a wise man.
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
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