Georg Christoph Lichtenberg...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
About This Quote
This quote is about how hard it is to advance our knowledge in areas such as philosophy and science. Although we may not like to admit it, most of us will never be able to read and understand every book that’s written. As a matter of fact, we can only read a fraction of the books that are ever written. And even then, we cannot understand everything in the books we do read.
This means that we must never expect to learn anything definite in any one particular field. We must keep learning new things in order for our minds to stay fresh and open to anything new that comes along.
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