There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs
– Thomas Sowell
There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool
— Marguerite de Valois
We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom
— E.O. Wilson
We’re all wind and dust anyway… We don’t even have any proof that the universe exists. We don’t have any proof that we are even sitting here. We can’t prove that we’re alive
— Bob Dylan
Self-knowledge might be the most difficult of life’s rewards — the hardest to earn and the hardest to bear. To know yourself is to know that you are not an unassailable fixity amid the entropic storm of the universe but a set of fragilities in constant flux. To know yourself is to know that you are not invulnerable
— Maria Popova
If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking
— Leslie Lamport