Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Interpretation
Trusting your instincts is vital, even without logical reasoning.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of following one's gut feelings or intuitions, even when there is no rational explanation to justify them. It suggests that our instincts can guide us to make important decisions in life, and that believing in ourselves is crucial, regardless of the external judgments or lack of logical support we might face.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a conference on personal development.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.
An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
I don't believe that the world is that crazy that they have nothing to better to do with their time than send me emails and tell me these outlandish stories. So I've started to plot the communities that have come to me on a map.
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