“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates…and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink in the wild air.”
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“Every artist was first an amateur”