Slogans are a replacement for thought. The word "slogan" comes from the Gaelic sluagh-ghairm. It means "battlecry of the dead." - Jordan Peterson

Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.

And even if it were possible to permanently banish everything threatening — everything dangerous (and, therefore, everything challenging and interesting), that would mean only that another danger would emerge: that of permanent human infantilism and absolute uselessness. How could the nature of man ever reach its full potential without challenge and danger? How dull and contemptible would we become if there was no longer reason to pay attention? Maybe God thought His new creation would be able to handle the serpent, and considered its presence the lesser of two evils.

You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay