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“the meaning of your communication is in its response.”
“An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge.”
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
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“The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur. To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry ― these are the essentials of thinking.”
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“We protect our minds by an elaborate system of abstractions, ambiguities, metaphors and similes from the reality we do not wish to know too clearly; we lie to ourselves, in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes”
― The Olive Tree and other essays
― The Olive Tree and other essays
“The Four Noble Truths for writers.
1. Writers write.
2. Writing is a process.
3. You don't know what your writing will be until the end of the process.
4. If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.”
― One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers
1. Writers write.
2. Writing is a process.
3. You don't know what your writing will be until the end of the process.
4. If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.”
― One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers
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