Know thyself.
-Socrates
"The wise learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise."
Brokerian adaptation of a fortune cookie fortune
"Strive to understand the source(s) of problems. However, if you reach a solution without complete understanding, it's OK to move on to the next problem."
Brokerian lesson learned from prolonged exposure to computers
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
- James Madison
4th U.S. president
"We owe almost all our knowledge
not to those who have agreed,
but to those who have differed."
-Charles Caleb Colton,
English clergyman, writer, 1825
"The truth of these days is not that which really is,but what every man persuades another man to believe."
-Montaigne,
French essayist, c. 1580
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
-Albert Einstein
“Education boils down to acquiring the desire, confidence and courage to question the answers.”
-Louis Schmier
“You have to accept what you know, and accept what you may never know.”
-Rachel Anne Mooney
“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?”
-Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
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