Super Devi

“Knowledge is power. The real test of knowledge is not whether it is true but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100% correct. Truth, consequently, is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.”
― Francis Bacon, Neues Organon, Volume 1...

“Wisdom, said William James,

Is learning what to overlook. And I am wise
If that is wisdom.”
― Randall Jarrell

“Nobody is any authority of the fucks other people give.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.”
― Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative