We mistake the accumulation of facts for wisdom.
The mind is often like an overgrown path, and 'finding truth' is less an act of blazing new trails and more the laborious work of weeding out the accumulated errors of our assumptions.
When we don't know the answer, our instinct is to pile on theories, creating a beautiful and dizzying intellectual architecture that obscures the foundation.
Insight is not found in stacking the bricks higher, but in systematically removing the scaffolding that has served its purpose.
A true understanding isn't built; it is revealed, only after we have chipped away everything that was merely convenient to believe.
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