In his series of poems “Four Quartets,” T.S. Eliot captured this kind of transformation with these lines:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

“In order to learn beyond your knowledge, ask questions to further the mind.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes’ observation: “A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.”