Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Interpretation
Trusting your instincts is vital, even without logical reasoning.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of following one's gut feelings or intuitions, even when there is no rational explanation to justify them. It suggests that our instincts can guide us to make important decisions in life, and that believing in ourselves is crucial, regardless of the external judgments or lack of logical support we might face.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a conference on personal development.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.
It's not when you realize that nothing can help you β religion, pride, anything β it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
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