“Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.”
“Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.”
“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.”
“If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.”
“I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.”
“If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.”