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.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
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