....there is elegance in mathematics. If everyone wrote poetry, the planet would starve, for God's sake. But there must be poetry and we must stop to notice it in even the simplest acts of living or we will have wasted much of what life has to offer.
If you're not sure about something, force yourself to think about it another way, even if you know it's wrong or silly. When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think