Quote of the Day: Euripides on Education

Late November has a clarifying quality. The air turns crisp, the calendar starts to crowd, and we feel the quiet pressure to “wrap things up” with clean conclusions. But this season is also an invitation to slow down, notice what you’ve been assuming, and leave a little room for wonder. That’s the spirit behind: “Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

“Question everything” isn’t a call to cynicism, it’s a discipline of attention. When you question, you interrupt autopilot. You examine the story you’re telling yourself about your work, your relationships, your limits. The goal isn’t to tear everything down; it’s to stop handing your steering wheel to habit, authority, or yesterday’s logic. This is leadership in its most personal form: leading your own mind.

“Learn something” gives the questioning a direction. Inquiry becomes fuel, not friction. Ask better questions in meetings. Probe the real problem before you solve the loud one. In conversation, replace your next opinion with a single curious sentence: “What led you to that?” Learning compounds, small insights today become better decisions tomorrow, and a calmer confidence that you don’t need to pretend you know it all. That posture strengthens resilience, because you can adapt without ego.

It’s fitting advice from Euripides, the Greek tragedian whose plays explored human psychology, social pressures, and moral complexity with uncommon honesty, training audiences to think rather than simply agree.

Today, choose one belief you’ve been carrying, about a person, a plan, or yourself, and write three questions that could be true instead. Read for ten minutes, listen for ten minutes, and let one conversation end without a verdict. May your curiosity stay sharp and your certainty stay kind.