“It
had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat
back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
—
Elinor Smith
Charles
Darwin deliberately looked for thoughts that disagreed with his own. He wrote,
“whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which
was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and
at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far
more apt to escape from memory than favorable ones.” Darwin was out for truth,
not to confirm his view of the world.
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change,” Marcus Aurelius said. “For I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.”
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