Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Knowledge alone is useless unless it serves feelings and emotions.
- In plain terms
- Knowledge must serve feelings to be useful.
- What can you take from it?
- Let emotions guide how you use knowledge.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Should knowledge serve emotion?
- How do you learn?
Another view
It may downplay pure intellectual pursuits.
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