A Quote by Thomas Merton

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

Thomas Merton

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Thomas Merton
American - Author
January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968

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