Some speak with certainty about medicine.
Some confidently assert what is morally good.
Others proclaim great wisdom about politics.
Yet when I try to learn from them, something curious happens. When asked to explain their reasoning, many offer little more than repetition. The same point is restated again and again, but the assumptions beneath it remain unexplored, and its implications unexamined. Few seem able to imagine the issue from another point of view.
It is almost as if the harder an opinion is pushed, the weaker its foundations become.
So I find myself asking, as I always have:
Where, oh where, can one find knowledge and wisdom?
