Meaning of “Each of you is right, and none of…”

James describes theories as tools for moving inquiry and experience forward rather than final intellectual resting places that eliminate the need for further testing or revision.

Definitions clarify ideas but can also narrow them, especially when a label is treated as the complete reality of a person or experience.

Reality exceeds any one viewpoint, so confidence in a perspective should leave room for what has not yet been seen.

Understanding a position requires serious contact with competing arguments; familiarity with only one side can produce confidence without real comprehension.

The aphorism suggests that inquiry is limited by the conceptual capacities of the person asking, making intellectual growth partly a matter of becoming able to formulate and recognize better questions.

Locke places useful limits around intellectual ambition: human inquiry need not comprehend everything in order to guide life well, and knowing where understanding stops is part of using it responsibly.