“We do not necessarily progress or improve as a human race alongside the leaps and bounds of science and knowledge.” — Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
Tag: knowledge
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“Odysseus had himself tied to the mast and rationally relinquished his option to act, his sailors plugged their ears with wax and rationally relinquished their option to know.” — Steven Pinker, “It’s Not Irrational to Party Like It’s 1999,” Nautilus (2021-11-17)
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“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of island, . As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” — John Archibald Wheeler, “Gravity quantized?,” Scientific American (Sep 1992)
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“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Breakfast of Champions
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“Display of superior knowledge is as great a vulgarity as display of superior wealth—greater indeed, inasmuch as knowledge should tend more definitely than wealth towards discretion & good manners.” — Henry Watson Fowler, A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage
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“Reality is infinite and we are finite and so there is a necessary mismatch between our knowledge of the world and the world itself.” — Rebecca Goldstein, Betraying Spinoza
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“It’s what saves us, the knowledge and sense of history, what saves us from the delusions of omniscience and omnipotence, from misplaced faith in money and machines.” — Lewis H. Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4, The Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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“If you think you have all of the answers that is a sign that you do not have all of the answers.” — Michael Wade, “Monday Morning Advice for Leaders,” Execupundit (2020-03-23)
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“Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the bare suspicion of ignorance.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son (1756-12-14)
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“Knowledge is never in doubt. Wisdom is never certain.” — Dee Hock, Autobiography of a Restless Mind
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