Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. —Francis Bacon

‘I am wise not because I know, but because I know I don’t know.’ The eventual result of a quest for self-knowledge might be presumed to be a confident understanding of the corridors of the mind. But a truly successful outcome might involve something rather different. The more closely we introspect, the more we start to appreciate the range of trick

A person acquiring a meme faces the same logical challenge as a scientist. Both must discover a hidden explanation. For the former, it is an idea in the minds of other people; for the latter, a regularity or law of nature.

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” —MARK TWAIN, AMERICAN AUTHOR

Possibly I’m particularly dense and anybody else would have understood immediately. But I hope I’m not alone in needing to learn important lessons repeatedly before grasping them.