Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
Interpretation
It's better to express your genuine beliefs, even if they're wrong, than to suppress them to please others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of authenticity and personal conviction in one’s beliefs and opinions. It suggests that making mistakes while being true to oneself is far more valuable than conforming to societal pressures or authority figures by hiding one’s true thoughts. By advocating for honesty and integrity, it promotes the idea that personal growth and understanding can arise from our errors and misunderstandings.
In practice
During a debate, you can quote this to emphasize the importance of standing by your beliefs.
Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.
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