“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold
Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 16 (p. 235)
“Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.”
Source: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 177
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