It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied &
if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion,
it is because they know only their own side of the question.
- John Stuart Mill
Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what
to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing
you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is
it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and
Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and
Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great
is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (1841)
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