2-You desire to understand the world around you better…
2-You desire to understand the world around you better today than you did yesterday. This is not the same as loving truth or fact. The first of loving truth was to be willing to admit you're wrong. This second principle is to acquire the knowledge and to acquire the truth which requires a significant effort in and of itself.
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)
In the book
Fourth, and this is a hard one, love truth more than you love being right — which means being willing to admit you are wrong, and welcoming new information even when it overturns a belief you held dear, because now you finally have the truth. To question your own beliefs and actions is often the very best way to learn, and acquiring real knowledge is not passive: it takes deliberate, sustained effort. Treat every mistake as a lesson rather than a failure — the only real mistake is the one from which you learn nothing — and learn to interrogate information instead of simply swallowing it, thinking like a fact-checker who refuses to treat popularity as proof. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)