However, they also mold and constrain thought. Of course, we all think for ourselves. Each of you must answer that question for yourself. Suffice it for me to say that it will help to be modest and not mistake having a lot of knowledge with having a lot of answers. It is not by accident that interest in truth and knowledge is more intense among the young than it is among the old, and why new and better understanding is often fought for and advanced by unknown upstarts opposing famous experts.
Young upstarts see challenges as tests to be met.
Established authorities see them as tasks to be avoided or ignored. Indeed, test is not a bad metaphor for life. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. He recognized that to be human is to be imperfect, to have limitations. It is limitations that make us human, existentially and morally.