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Richard Saul Wurman Quotes: In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
         

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.


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

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



The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.



Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.



You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.



Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.



Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.



The organization of information actually creates new information.

The organization of information actually creates new information.



A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England



Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.



People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring





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We have come to worship things, status, fame, popularity, money, security. Anything that comes between God and ourselves is idolatry. Jesus demands Lordship over all such things.



The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.



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Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.



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If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.



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I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.




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