It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
~~ Mark Twain ~~ (1835 - 1910)
There is a very good reason for that. If we think we don’t know something or not sure about something, we don’t insist on it but try to learn more about it. But when we think that we are sure of something, we insist on it being true and many a times it turns out that what we were sure of isn’t necessarily the way we thought it to be. And that may lead us to trouble. I believe the lesson here is to be open-minded about the views of others even on matters that we think we know for sure.
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