Words&Dirt

“There is some error, one frightful error, in the thinking of men.  What is that error?  We do not know, but the knowledge struggles within us, struggles to be born.”

––Anthem, by Ayn Rand, loc. 877

“A learned person once told me about her favorite sentence, one that she said comes closer to defining human maturity than any other.  When spoken, either aloud or in the recesses of the heart, it can mark a person’s first steps toward wisdom.

‘I could be mistaken.’”

––The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, by David Brin, pg. 294