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“Even recognizing the extent of our unexamined assumptions can be the hardest…

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Quote by Terryl and Fiona Givens

Terryl and Fiona Givens

“Even recognizing the extent of our unexamined assumptions can be the hardest thing of all. It is like asking a fish what it is like to be wet. ‘What is wet?’ even a miraculously verbal fish would reply. Our assumptions, like the ocean in which a fish swims, are the invisible background to our thinking, waking existence.”

Source: The Crucible of Doubt

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