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Opinions and curiosity | Vividness
“Less certainty. More inquiry.”
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff
The more you think you are your opinions the more you have to defend them, whereas the more lightly they are held the less attached you will be to being right.
Richard Rudd • The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose
the big problem is our insistence on imposing concepts upon experiences that are truly open in nature.
Tulku Thondup • The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment (Buddhayana Series, VII)
If I must bear the consequences of my choices alone, if there is no one whose counsel I trust, then it becomes especially tempting to seek both perfect knowledge and certainty before acting, and find myself paralyzed in their absence.