"A man is the whole encyclopedia of..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”
“Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.”
“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”
More on Knowledge
“He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him”
“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.”
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.”