A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that a person can embody a vast amount of knowledge and information. It emphasizes the importance of human experience and understanding as a source of wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote implies that an individual has the capacity to contain a wealth of knowledge akin to an encyclopedia. This highlights the idea that each person's life experiences, insights, and accumulated knowledge contribute significantly to their character and value, suggesting that learning and understanding are comprehensive and interconnected aspects of human existence.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the value 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?
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts β possessions, outward success, luxuryβhave always seemed to me contemptible.
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
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