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skonen_bladesCertainty is the province of the youth. Or the arrested mind.
I think that if you are sure of something, then you are not wise. I don’t think wisdom creates doubt but I think it brings the knowledge of fallibility; that as a race, we know nothing; that learning is all there is and we have an infinite distance to go. It is not insecurity. It is being humble in the face of that knowledge.
All great men know that they know nothing. Some people tell me what they’d do if they had a time machine. I say that you don’t need a time machine to change the course of history. Some people say that they were born in the wrong time. In most cases, I disagree. If you are an unhappy assistant manager at a seven-eleven in this life, you would have been an unhappy stable cleaner in medieval times or an unhappy ensign on a future starship.
The only way forward, the only way up, is to do things you don’t know how to do. The only way to slow down time is to fill it with new experiences and by extension, to realize that every moment is a new experience.
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I think that if you are sure of something, then you are not wise. I don’t think wisdom creates doubt but I think it brings the knowledge of fallibility; that as a race, we know nothing; that learning is all there is and we have an infinite distance to go. It is not insecurity. It is being humble in the face of that knowledge.
All great men know that they know nothing. Some people tell me what they’d do if they had a time machine. I say that you don’t need a time machine to change the course of history. Some people say that they were born in the wrong time. In most cases, I disagree. If you are an unhappy assistant manager at a seven-eleven in this life, you would have been an unhappy stable cleaner in medieval times or an unhappy ensign on a future starship.
The only way forward, the only way up, is to do things you don’t know how to do. The only way to slow down time is to fill it with new experiences and by extension, to realize that every moment is a new experience.
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