human
You should never say you have an opinion on a subject until you have tried to study the strongest things said against the view to which you are inclined.
gpt
You must not think you know a subject until you are acquainted with all that the best minds have said about it.
human
No steady work can be done in public unless the worker study at home far more than he talks outside.
gpt
Be your own harshest judge, listen to your own speech and criticise it; read abuse of yourself and see what grains of truth are in it.
human
Do not waste time by reading opinions that are mere echoes of your own; read opinions you disagree with, and you will catch aspects of truth you do not readily see. Through our long comradeship he was my sternest as well as gentlest critic, pointing out to me that in a party like ours, where our own education and knowledge were above those whom we led, it was very easy to gain indiscriminate praise and unstinted admiration; on the other hand, we received from Christians equally indiscriminate abuse and hatred. It was, therefore, needful that we should be our own harshest judges, and that we should be sure that we knew thoroughly every subject that we taught. He saved me from the superficiality that my