“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
Winston Churchill
It is too easy to write someone off because they have been foolish in the past. We put labels on those we don’t agree with because it is easier than carefully considering if there is some truth in their assertions.
We may even feel threatened that a group we don’t agree with has a good idea that we haven’t thought of. Surely if it was a good idea, we would have thought of it, right?
Wisdom takes humility. Every person can teach us something. It takes discernment to listen and consider other points of view. The echo chamber we are tempted to live in eventually makes us deaf.
Even fools are right sometimes. Humility makes us consider that to someone else, we may look like a fool and we are right sometimes too.
