You, who are the father of letters...have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant.
-- Socrates (addressing the Egyptian god Thoth)
Better to dare Mighty Things and fail, than to live in a gray twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-- Saint Augustine
Competence is a state of controlled incompetence.
-- Ronald Epstein
What then is the education to be? ...gymnastic for the body and music for the mind.
-- Plato
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
-- Theodore Levitt
Competence is a state of controlled incompetence.
-- Ronald Epstein
Wisdom in Space
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