We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'
The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.
We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
When one teaches, two learn.
I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.