How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.…

Thomas Merton
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How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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