Mohammad Abu Shaban

“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“We live under the knowledge illusion because we fail to draw an accurate line between what is inside and outside our heads. And we fail because there is no sharp line. So we frequently don’t know what we don’t know.”
― Steven Sloman, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

“My mama always told me that you get more flies with honey than with vinegar.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“Excellence doesn’t persist; time passes, and mediocrity asserts itself.*”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking