Friday, December 13, 2019

Expert Advice

The definition of an expert: one who thinks he knows.

It is then tempting to define a wise man as one who knows that he does not know. But this is still to be trapped in the realm of the known.

To be truly wise, we must enter into the unknown.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.--Shunryu Suzuki
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