New Sentences: From βA Long Way From Home,β by Peter Carey
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- It is tempting to avoid feeling dumb β to build a wall between ourselves and the world, which is, after all, an infinite showroom of our ignorance. But feeling temporarily dumb is how we become smart, in the same way that feeling temporarily weak is how we become strong.
- (Western civilization has often made itself feel smarter by walling itself off from forms of intelligence that threaten it.)