An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Truth, on this view, needs no proof. “We know truth when we see it,” as surely as we know we are awake. No test is offered for the flash that turns out wrong, and a strong feeling of certainty is often wrong.

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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