I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.
Every person must be his own watchman for the truth, because the forefathers did not trust government to separate the true from the false for us.
I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.
You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.
The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.
Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.
But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.
As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.
