“Why is it that we are constantly proving the world wrong but never proving ourselves right?”
“Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.”
“All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.”
“It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.”
“But ask us to prove even to ourselves we are right in our belief, and we are in a quandary.”
“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”