About this quote

No one holds a monopoly on truth — each person carries a fragment and has to search their own conscience to find it. That breeds humility in disagreement: you follow what you honestly see while granting that others are doing the same, which rules out forcing your version onto anyone else.

When to use it

• Instead of quoting rules, a mediator asks each sibling what they genuinely believe is fair in the estate.
• A teacher lets students defend their own reading of a poem rather than memorize one approved answer.
• Facing a hard call, a nurse checks her own conscience before deferring to the loudest voice on the ward.