Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.