There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Some truths require earned experience or authority before they can be spoken.
- In plain terms
- You can only tell certain truths after you have earned the right.
- What can you take from it?
- Earned experience grants the right to speak truth.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What truths must you earn?
- Who decides who can speak?
Another view
It might silence valid truths from the inexperienced.
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