Education
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher
Solitude
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You don’t need to leave your room.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Don’t even listen, simply wait.
Don’t even wait.
Be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you.
To be unmasked, it has no choice.
It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
— Franz Kafka
Forecasting the Future
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We have two classes of forecasters: Those who don’t know — and those who don’t know they don’t know.
— John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
Courage of the Poet
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Magic is a vanishing art
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Magic is a vanishing art.
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