“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.” — Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
Tag: insight
Quote of the Day
“The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. When you add that people are necessarily mistaken, that all people are exposed to situations in which they must act as fools, that every insight contains its own special kind of blindness, you complete the comic circle.” — Kenneth Burke, Attitudes Toward History
Quote of the Day
“It is hardly in human nature that a man should quite accurately gauge the limits of his own insight; but it is the duty of those who profit by his work to consider carefully where he may have been carried beyond it.” — William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief
Quote of the Day
“We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.” — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge
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