"The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something"

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Source : Richard Saul Wurman (2009). “33: understanding change & the change in understanding”

Richard Saul Wurman

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“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.”
“Nothing outside of my child is important”
“Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.”
“If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.”
“Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.”
“Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.”
“Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.”
“Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.”

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