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I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot b...more

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…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a...more

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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in al...more

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A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is f...more

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Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.