Much more so in life. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth. I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. You cannot attract the attention of the dead.