We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
Interpretation
We should be open to learning from each other and recognize that no one has all the answers.
This quote by Desmond Tutu emphasizes the importance of humility and openness in our pursuit of knowledge and understanding. It suggests that true wisdom comes from collaboration and respecting different perspectives, rather than believing that one holds exclusive knowledge or truth.
In practice
During a community meeting discussing cultural differences, one might share this quote to encourage understanding among different groups.
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.
Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!
And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
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