If your chief goal, as a thinking person, is to find a path to making yourself right, you may never amount to much of a thinking person, but you can never be disappointed.
(Edited to remove objectionable and politically biased commentary)
I think you would have done better quoting just the second sentence, which is indeed a sharp rationality quote and needs no context to be appreciated. To include the previous sentence is just inviting downvotes for politics-is-the-mindkiller reasons. (Both in the plain level that conservatives might confuse it for "rah liberals" quote, and in the meta level that some people dislike any mention of ordinary politics in LW regardless of sides.)
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: