Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“When we are children, we think that adults know how the world works. When we become adults, we know enough about the world to know that we know nothing about it…”
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Pierre Bouvier (1979) Canadian musician
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David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
McKenna interview (1992)
Context: I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow — you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.
“When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.”
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira (1949) Brazilian singer
Jornal Hoje, Rede Globo, June 9, 2007
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 12, “Puzzle Pieces Fitting” (p. 88)
“We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t.”
Rebecca Solnit book Men Explain Things To Me
Source: Men Explain Things to Me
Omar Bradley (1893–1981) United States Army field commander during World War II
Armistice Day speech (11 November 1948), published in Omar Bradley's Collected Writings, Volume 1 (1967).
Context: We have men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
1920s
Context: Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
“Google knows everything about us but we know nothing about Google.”
Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist
The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming
