I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.
采草编成同心结,想要送给知音人。
Even a foolish person can still be right about most things. Most conventional wisdom is true.
当你遇到反对时,即使它来自你的丈夫或你的孩子,也要努力通过争论而不是权威来克服它,因为依赖权威的胜利是不真实和虚幻的。