Knowledge arrives only when a person is ready to receive it.

Evidence

We are oblivious of information until we are ready for it. One day, we feel a resonance, from the soles of the feet to the cranium. Without mediation, without apology, we read ourselves, and know what we know. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 934

Categorization

• XREF: My own prioritization is that facts only register and surface when primed by readiness — this echoes my knowledge-base philosophy that passages are kept for resurfacing.
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘activation by readiness’ as a model for both reading-as-writing and for how Mantel stages information in memoir.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 934