But does anyone know of this quote ? i remember there was a quote from somewhere but i forgot where, it goes along the lines of how an individual person's experience cannot compare to the culture of people, that was forged by the experiences of many many generations of people.
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Would you please share it with the rest of us, now? I'm curious as to what it is.
“Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.”
― Will Durant