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?
It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.' She touched his hand. 'You need to forgive your father.' ~pgs 141-142
Take care what words you speak that follow βI am.β In so speaking you create your life.
That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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