¿De verdad dijo Ralph Waldo Emerson «A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds»?
SAPIR 861 · VERIFICACIÓN DE CITAS
¿De verdad dijo Ralph Waldo Emerson «A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds»?
Encontrado palabra por palabra. Sí. El texto aparece en obras atribuidas a Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fuente y ubicación abajo.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with the shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.--"Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood."--Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras[186] was misunderstood, and Socrates, …
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson, ¶196 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #16643 · fuente
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0