Quotes Archive
Richard Feynman once wrote, “If you ever hear yourself saying, ‘I think I understand this,’ that means you don’t.”
Steven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Knowledge is a process, not a possession
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Why I have an antilibrary (the power of unread books)
“It’s frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what’s going on.” -Amos Tversky
Howard Marks • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
With its built-in awareness of dipolar thought (that A and B can both reflect aspects of truth) and that all thought is an abstraction that is one step removed from actual reality, Process Thought respects multiple perspectives, conceding with intellectual humility that more than one perspective may offer value and insight.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
In other words, one of the main ways basic knowingness functions is in the feeling that you don’t know.