…schools often do not allow children to be creative and exporative, but demand rote learning and discipline. All these things actively destroy curiosity in HG children. … It is not surprising to me that ADHD rates are soaring under such conditions.

— Andreas Hofer and Adrienn Raczi, Born Different

just as the blowing winds preserve the sea from stagnation, so also stagnation in peoples would be the product of prolonged, let alone absolute peace

— Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right

Except for a few natural catastrophes, every great woe has been driven by a stupidity.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, How to Actually Change Your Mind

…it is never a person’s toolset that constrains their potential, it’s their mindset.

— Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain

if a man is born in whom nature is strong enough, he’ll shake off all his limitations, shatter them to pieces, and win his freedom

— Plato, Gorgias