Patience: 'The more a person knows the more they realize they don't know. To seek knowledge is healthy, but rather than making a personal investment in a proposition, make your investment in patience, time and tolerance. For nothing is more forbearing, charitable or fickle with knowledge than time.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- More knowledge brings more awareness of what is unknown. Invest in patience rather than rigid propositions.
- In plain terms
- True wisdom is realizing how much you do not know.
- What can you take from it?
- Invest in patience rather than certainty.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How much do you not know?
- What would patience change?
Another view
Sometimes quick decisions are necessary regardless of knowledge.
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