1127 – “Expertise isn’t about being consistently right. It’s about becoming decreasingly wrong. A hallmark of understanding is the ability to rule out inaccurate theories and flawed evidence, and thereby move closer to the truth. Learning is the art of discarding mistaken ideas.”

-Adam Grant

1100 – Galileo on God and Science

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. He would not require us to deny sense and reason in physical matters which are set before our eyes and minds by direct experience or necessary demonstrations.”

-Galileo Galilei

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1072 – “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.”

-Doris Lessing

1010 – “The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.”

-E L Doctorow

983 – “One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”

-Bertrand Russell

940 – 「君子以多識前言往行，以畜其德。」

“Jūnzǐ yǐ duō shì qiányán wǎng xíng, yǐ chù qí dé.”

“The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.”

-Fuxi

924 – “There is a way between voice and presence where information flows.”

-Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

835 – “[A good teacher] brings knowledge and his pupil into a vital relationship; and the object of teaching is to establish that relationship on an intelligible basis. This can only be done … by appealing to two qualities which are at the bottom of all knowledge, curiosity and observation. They are born with us, every child naturally develops them, and it is the duty of the teacher to direct them to proper ends.”

–Mandell Creighton [See Source for full Context]

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799 – “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

–James Rumford [Widely Misattributed to Ibn Battuta, See Source Notes]

795 – “It seems to me that an understanding of the natural world is crucial for all of us – after all we depend upon it for our food, for the air we breath and, some would say, for our very sanity.”

–David Attenborough