A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
Interpretation
The opinions of many do not diminish your own experiences or truths.
This quote emphasizes the idea that reality is subjective; even if the majority dismisses something as untrue, such as the grandeur of mountains, it does not affect those who have personally experienced or understood its reality. It suggests the importance of personal perspective and experience over public opinion.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about believing in oneself despite criticism.
I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
One of the nice things about the Internet is you can do a comic that's just for Ph.D. students, or for truck drivers, and you get to reach all of them without having to satisfy the other 99%.
News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.
Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
Things take the time they take. Don't worry.
The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Soul, if you want to learn secrets,⨠your heart must forget about shame⨠and dignity. You are God's lover,⨠yet you worry what people are saying.
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