Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Quotation of the Week 07/02/08: Orson Scott Card

"Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon"
-from Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card

It's hard to say that any of us really knows anything. Someone that is scared to jump off a cliff into the lake just doesn't trust enough that it won't hurt them. They don't "know" if it is safe--no matter how many of their friends have already jumped and come out unscathed. We don't know that tomorrow will even come, but we trust enough that it will--so we make plans. What is something that you "know"? And what do you wish you could do but don't have enough trust in it to act?

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