An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Say what you think today in hard words, and tomorrow say what tomorrow thinks, even if it contradicts today. People will misunderstand you. Pythagoras, Socrates, Jesus, Luther, Copernicus, Galileo and Newton were misunderstood too. “To be great is to be misunderstood.”

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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