If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. German writer and polymath (1749–1832)
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.