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?
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.
Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.
Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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