When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
Interpretation
Questioning leads to understanding and discovery.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the power of inquiry. It suggests that when we reach a significant question, we are often close to the understanding or answer we seek, highlighting the importance of critical thinking and exploration in gaining knowledge.
In practice
In a classroom setting, a teacher could use this quote to inspire students to ask deeper questions.
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?
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.
When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
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