Something that took me a while to learn, and have yet to internalize fully:

The concept of a thing can get in the way of knowing it

Because when you think you know something (via the mind’s conception), you don’t give it the same attention in the present. Nothing is static, so the latter is the only way to truly know something

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Kant talks about this in the critique of pure reason, the amphiboly — when people confuse and object of the pure understanding with an object of the senses