"Each mind has its own method. A..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.
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“How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.”
“Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.”
“Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.”
More on Individuality
“Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?”
“The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.”
“Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”
More on Learning
“I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.”
“This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?”
“We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop”