Particularly interesting quotes
The following are a collection of quotes/ideas that I have found interesting, thought provoking or enjoyable. This is a living document and will continue to grow.
- Knowing why requires a much deeper understanding than knowing how. 1
- Misplaced persistence creates unneeded challenges. 2
- Randomness is often misconstrued as meaning. A random series will always present some detectable pattern. 3
- We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. 4
- Think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. 3
- Words are never neutral. 5
- History teaches us that things that never happened before, do happen. 3
- Beware of calm waters. 3
- We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives. 4
- That which turns its back on inner calm and the quality it reveals is bad maintenance. 4
- A finding of absence and an absence of findings often get mixed together. There may be great information in the fact that nothing took place. 3
Footnotes
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Sybilla Beckmann, Mathematics for Elementary Teachers ↩
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Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers (2014) ↩
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness (2001) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power (1998) — mostly short sighted, demagogic, non-sequitur “laws”, but a few interesting snippets ↩