I fancy myself a pretty smart guy and it took me ages to understand that there are reasons for things, sometimes good reasons, sometimes bad reasons, but if I didn’t understand something first I couldn’t fix it or improve it–and quite often my ideas would be undermined by truth and reality as I found out more about something.
Socrates was right: having wisdom in one thing tempts you to believe that you are wise in all, and you’re not.
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