“To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.”
Max Brooks book World War Z
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.”
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