Quotes
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Not everything that counts can be counted” - Einstein
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.” — Mark Manson
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell
“Everything is about sex, except sex: sex is about power”
apocryphal wrongly attributed to Oscar Wilde.
May have been said by Psychologist Robert Michels
Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else’s life.
Do not let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
—Steve Jobs https://t.co/3D2HSyNb4Q
“…this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of
... See moreThe famous critique of writing by Socrates, recounting a myth about the Egyptian gods Theuth (inventor of writing) and Thamus (a king).
Writing might seem like a good tool for learning, but it actually makes people more forgetful. Why? Because when people rely on writing, they stop using their own memory. They don’t truly learn or retain knowledge inside themselves; they just look things up.