Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance, Essays, First Series
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
Reflection
Changing your mind when the facts change is not hypocrisy — it is honesty in motion. Which of your positions are you defending only because you once said it out loud?
Source record
- Author
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Original source
- Self-Reliance, Essays, First Series
- Original date
- 1841
- Edition used
- Original English, 1841 — public domain
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