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Socrates once said, "One thing I know, and that is, I know nothing." Echoing a similar sentiment, Albert Einstein remarked, "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know."
Even some of the greatest minds and thinkers in history know that the universe is so vast that it would be impossible for us to know everything about it.
We are so limited in our capacity that it would be foolish to think that we have already discovered and understood everything that there is to know about the universe or life.
Every day, there is still so much for us to learn. And being able to open ourselves to new experiences and new knowledge enables us to delve deeper into the unknown.
Daryl Van Tongeren, associate professor of psychology at Hope College, explores the idea of intellectual humility and the joys that being wrong brings to us in his article.
We don't know everything, and trying to persuade others that we do is just a ridiculous exercise in folly. Thinking that we do is just inane. When we humble ourselves and accept that there are certain things on which we might be wrong, that's when learning begins.
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