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?
When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.
It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid.
Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.
Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.
You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
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