Never black or white

The deeper you think, the harder it becomes to speak in absolutes. Because the closer you look at anything, the more angles you begin to see.

Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that famous philosophers, people who spent their lives thinking, tend to hold fewer hard conclusions. Open-mindedness, it seems, is a philosophy of philosophy.

Strong-willed people with fixed views are often just defending an identity, not a conviction — clinging to opinions chosen early, hardly examined. That’s not wisdom. It’s ego.

Philosophy unfolds slowly. It’s shaped by reflection, challenged by new perspectives, and refined over time. The flexibility it requires isn’t about jumping on new ideas suggested by viral tweets and backed by quotes. It’s the humility to consider what you might still be missing, even in what you’ve long believed. Or what appears to be a mind-blowing revelation.

Socrates said, “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Not because he hadn’t thought deeply, but because he had.

Most things aren’t black or white. The truth usually lives in the grey, obscured by the noise of people who rushed to their side of the argument and stopped listening. Or thinking.