"...One can't start straight with perfection! To attain perfection, one must first of all be able not to understand many things. For if we understand things too quickly, we may perhaps fail to understand them well enough."
Prince Myshkin in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot, quoted in Peterson p.54 (my emphasis)
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