Everett Jefferson > Everett's Quotes

“You have to know the past to understand the present.”
― Carl Sagan

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
― E.M. Forster

“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“I never allow myself to hold an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do”
― Charlie Munger

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot