[koonsolo]

To become wise, life has to beat the shit out of you. That means you will have some battle scars, and encountered yourself a few times.

Thinking alone won't get you there. That will turn you into an "Intellectual Yet Idiot", as Nassim Taleb calls it.

[xcambar]

I think it's hard to contradict this, yet it's a hardly accepted lemma.

I don't know why, maybe because we perceive knowledge as a pure thing, that can be shared, embraced and understood out of thin air, that we can be pure minds or something along those lines.

Yet, from personal experience, being taken down from your high horse and beaten down to earth by life itself (ie, this 0.0001% probability event that is 100% for you), well... It takes more than a fool to not take a learning out of it.