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withhold your judgment
An ancient Persian fable tells of a king who wanted to teach his four sons about life.
At his command, the eldest made a winter journey to see a mango tree. When spring came, the next oldest was sent on the same journey. Summer followed and the third son went. Finally, after the youngest had made his visit in the autumn, the king called them together and asked them to describe the tree.
The first son said it looked like a burnt stump. The second son disagreed, describing it as lovely – large and green. The third son declared its blossoms were as beautiful as roses. The fourth son said that they were all wrong – the fruit was so tasty, almost as juicy as a pear.
“Well”, said the old king, “each of you is right.” To the puzzled look of his children, he continued: “You see, each of you saw it in a different season. Thus all of you are correctly describing what you saw… You must withhold your judgment until you have seen the tree in all its seasons.”
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