I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the power of self-confidence, even when it may be perceived as foolishness by others.
Edgar Allan Poe suggests that what others may view as foolishness can actually stem from a deep-seated self-confidence. He highlights the importance of believing in oneself, regardless of external opinions, and suggests that this self-assurance is often misinterpreted as folly by those who do not recognize its value.
In practice
In a motivational speech about believing in oneself, this quote emphasizes the importance of self-confidence.
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.
Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.
We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.
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