manhood teaching #6

"The dedication to one’s highest potential is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act that you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process in grasping that 2 and 2 make 4. Accept the irrevocable fact that your life depends on your mind. Do not say that you are afraid to trust your mind because you know so little. Are you safer in surrendering to mystics and discarding the little that you know? Live and act within the limits of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limits of your life. That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error." -(Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, p. 1058)