After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- An educated person must remain ready to update their knowledge constantly.
- In plain terms
- You should always be ready to change what you know.
- What can you take from it?
- Keep learning and be ready to change your mind.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When did you change your mind?
- What do you still want to learn?
Another view
Some truths are foundational and hard to change.
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