If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and humility in knowledge.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that if one cannot take pride in the knowledge they possess, then they should take pride in their acknowledgment of ignorance. This idea promotes the value of humility and self-awareness, recognizing that there is wisdom in understanding one's limitations and that acknowledging what we do not know can be just as significant as knowing.
In practice
This quote can inspire students to embrace their learning journey rather than their current knowledge.
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?
She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
I say don't overreact; cool your jets. Focus on things that you can control: your business, your employees' welfare, your guests, and the quality of the product that you dish up. Do that, keep your chin down, pay attention to business, and the sun will come up tomorrow. That's the way I figure it.
In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.
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