Never think you have all the answers.
By Pose123
@Pose123 (21635)
Canada
October 3, 2008 9:18am CST
There is a Chinese proverb that goes something like this: Great doubts deep wisdom,little doubts small wisdom. We should nver assume that we know it all, have all the answers. Always keep seeking, keep quesioning life because when we stop we become stagnant. If there is life after death, it can only means always moving forward, always learning and always new problems to tackel and solve. We can never stand still. Comments please.
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8 responses
@bournecaindelta (2477)
• India
4 Oct 08
Wisdom and knowledge are a very vast field. You might think that you have covered all and know all, but there will always be something that is always unknown. In fact, as one of my friends says, the knowledge about everything is very painful. So it's better to know only as much as we can digest.
bourne

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@anneshirley (1516)
• Philippines
4 Oct 08
Yes, I do believe that we don't have answers to everything and we can always ask someone to help us find the answer. We must not live on our own, we need to interact with other people. It is better to ask someone if we don't know the answer than to act proud as if we know everything.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
4 Oct 08
Hello pose. It is true indeed that we cannot expect to have all the answers because life itself is changing with new and different questions for us to answer or to explore. We will never get enough answers to them. So the best way is to keep on studying and studying for the intention of not lagging behind. Thank you for the discussion.
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@qianlizhifeng (468)
• China
3 Oct 08
Yeah ,I agree with you.A relative talking also tells us to never stop learning :The greatest discovery of human being is to find ourself knowing nothing about ourself and our world.Therefore we should keep thinking ,learning ,trying to find as much as possible.The problem is ,to a person ,what he could do is limited ,so we have to coopertate with others to learn more.In one word ,as the starter says,we have to keep learning all the life long.
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@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
4 Oct 08
Yep, we should never ever assure to ourselves that we know everything and all the answers. We should always have doubts and continuously seek for the answers. The right answers in fact. Because learning is a never-ending journey.
@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
3 Oct 08
I have to agree with the proverbs. Also, I have to say that we should not assume that we learn everything because in life everything is changing thus you can not say that a particular thing is absolute.
@Mirita (2668)
• United States
3 Oct 08
Yes, when we stop learning, we stop growing as individuals. Is important not to assume that we have all the answers ,so we can learn from others and their experiences. I consider myself a moderate individual because to me people who are too liberal or too conservative are always triying to compete against eachother instead of learning from eachother and this particular mentally takes them away from actually solving problems.
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@skysuccess (8857)
• Singapore
4 Oct 08
Pose123,
Wise words and truly so as the only time one can stop learning is the day we demise. For as much as what is evolving around us, we can never stop in our tracks and we need to move forward and look forward as well.
So, "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eyes fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." (Dag Hammarskjold).
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