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author: wompmacho
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title: Quotes
description: 'Some good notes I have found along the way'
date: '2025-03-31'
lastmod: '2025-03-31'
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# Interesting

- On the Futility of Learning Maxims
    > For a man, however, whose progress is definite, to chase after choice extracts
    > and to prop his weakness by the best known and the briefest sayings and to
    > depend upon his memory, is disgraceful; it is time for him to lean on himself.
    > He should make such maxims and not memorize them. - **Seneca**

- On Life and Learning
    > Remembering is merely safeguarding something entrusted to the memory; knowing,
    > however, means making everything your own. - **Seneca**

    This led to [Bloom's taxonomy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_taxonomy)
    a framework for categorizing educational goals, developed by a committee of
    educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. [Moral Letters to Lucilius by Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger](https://monadnock.net/seneca/)
- Stupidity
    > Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
    >
    > **Hanlon's Razor**: It is a mental model suggesting that most negative outcomes or harms result from mistakes, ignorance, or neglect rather than deliberate, evil intent. This rule fosters compassion, reduces unnecessary conflict, and cautions against jumping to conclusions about others' motives. 

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