To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those things that lie beyond.
Attributed to mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, the last scholar to lead the universities in the city of Alexandria before they burned along with the library in the 5th century AD.
However, faithful reader James G writes:
Like several other platitudes attributed to Hypatia, this quotation comes from the imaginative pen of Elbert Hubbard and introduces his essay on her in Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers (1916).
