Sebastian Thrun Quotes

I try not to be overly analytical.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

There are two kinds of people in the world: the conscious and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

You will never succeed in getting at the truth if you know, ahead of time, what the truth ought to be

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and an inability to verbalize my ideas); I had a lack of confidence, which cause me to back down from forcefully stated positions; and I was overly emotional at the expense of careful, 'scientific' though. I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.