Marcus Aurelius: If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right…
If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
In today’s wordsIf anyone can show me I'm thinking or acting wrongly, I'll gladly change, because I'm after the truth, which never hurt anyone. What hurts is staying stuck in error and ignorance.
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- What you don't know may not hurt you, but it won't help you. In fact, it may kill you. If there is something good that you don't know about, it can't help you. If there is something bad you don't know about, it could kill you. Knowing and aligning with the right people can help you more than anything else. Get to know the people and things that can help you the most.
- There is no easy way to learn hard things. There is the difficult way and the most difficult way. The difficult way is to learn from the mistakes of others. The most difficult way is to have to learn from your own mistakes, because you didn't learn, or refused to learn, from the mistakes of others.
- Humility must be ascribed before honor can be prescribed.
- To restore a common-place truth to its first uncommon lustre, you need only translate it into action.
- If you want new ideas, read old books.