People overvalue their knowledge and underestimate the probability of their being wrong.*
(Nassim Taleb)
Take me down to the spring of my life, and tell me my nature and my name.**
(George Appleton)
Better to ask a question than give an answer or advice:
‘the unquestioned confines us to smaller and smaller compartments of ourselves’.^
It’s not that we’ll ever run out of wondering, whether about things “out there” or “in here”:
“One of the reasons that we wonder is because we are limited, and that limitation is one of the greatest gateways to wonder.”^^
May we awake each new day wondering.
(*From Nassim Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness.)
(**George Appleton, quoted in the Northumbria Community‘s Morning Prayer.)
(^From Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings: A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics … .)
(^^John O’Donohue, quoted in Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings: A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics … .)