No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. — John Locke. English philosopher and physician (1632–1704)
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.