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“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”
— Wayne Dyer
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“There is another type of fiction which we create all the time to glorify ourselves and denounce others. We backbite more and praise less. We project ourselves as smarter than what we actually are and discredit the smartness of others. We cover our follies and believe that we are great, good and virtuous and brand others as evil and vicious.”
— Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
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We should tell ourselves we’re ignorant | Emma Kay Tocci | TEDxNYUAD
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A Cup of Tea
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”
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“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
— Confucius
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“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”
— John Lennon