Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
Reasoning with intellectual integrity does not allow one to offer flights of fancy as truth. Sound reasoners are limited within the boundaries drawn by truth as we know it, the facts and reasoned understanding. The ignorant can, and do, claim truth in whatever they wish without the bounds of truth or sound reasoning. Whatever the field, science, politics, religion, one must let go of the prevailing dogma to see truth. Whatever you think you know is only that which is available to you. Tomorrow your universe may change on a new understanding, but only if you can see. Adhering to dogma limits, blinds, and deafens us to truth. Imagination shows us where to go, but does not tell us what is really there, it tells us what we wish was there. Wishes are not truth. Seeking truth is a journey for the imaginative, dogma is a hiding place for the timid. Follow those who seek the truth, beware those who have found it.
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