“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”
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Ego is the main thing standing between a person and an honest view of reality. The willingness to be corrected, to be nobody in particular, to sit lower than those you'd normally overlook, is exactly what lets a new understanding actually reach you.
When to use it
- A senior engineer accepting a blunt correction from a junior teammate without pulling rank.
- Admitting to your children that you were the one who was wrong in last night's argument.
- A scholar rechecking a cherished theory because a single overlooked source contradicts it.