ON SELF-RELIANCE PART 4

Emerson says “to be great is to be misunderstood”, like when Copernicus told everyone that Earth isn’t the center of the universe the sun is and people thought he was crazy and threatened him to take back what he said.

“ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little states man and philosophers and divine”

“We pass for what we are”