I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Interpretation
The speaker values personal knowledge and understanding over citing others.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson expresses a disdain for mere quotations and emphasizes the importance of original thought and personal knowledge. Emerson advocates for self-discovery and encourages individuals to rely on their own understanding instead of simply repeating the words of others.
In practice
During a philosophy class discussion on the value of original thought.
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?
If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?
It's never a question of skin pigmentation. It's never a question of just culture or sexual orientation or civilization. It's what kind of human being you're going to choose to be from your mama's womb to the tomb and what kind of legacy will you leave.
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