Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
