What we think we know Quotes

“It's not always what we don't know that gets in our way sometimes it's what we think we know that keeps us from learning. ”

“Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.”

“It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”

“It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”

“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?”

“What we call “Higher” behavior is elaborated by our abstract mind to ensure survival by an efficient cohesion of our clan.What we call “lower” behavior is to ensure survival at the expense of a rival, or to prevent the survival of a rival to be at our expense.So,Be they our “higher” and “lower” behavior/selves, our humanity and inhumanity, our “Divine” and “diabolic” trends, or any aspect of our Human Nature,All are created by our abstract mind to ensure survival in an environment of scarcity.But of course you can always choose to adopt “revelations” which present human nature as: A messed up image of a messed up supernatural coexistence between two messed up opposite supernatural entities with a messed up relation.Ultimately, we all think we choose by what we think we know.”

“Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place”