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21 best ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance (via justin murphy)
Most people do not trust their own beliefs. The essence of genius is simply to trust yourself—to infer that whatever seems most true in your heart is most true in reality—and for everybody else, too, despite whatever they may claim.
There is hardly anything more painful
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” -Twain
Collaborative Fund • Makes You Think
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” -Twain
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”—Bertrand