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“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

Thinking Littles Can Do Change Justice Knowledge Learning Failing Shapes Management Social Justice Deeds Range Our Thoughts Mindful Living

Author:R. D. Laing

“Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.”

Humans Has Beens Reason Knowledge Learning Integrity Shapes Findings Conscience Human Reason

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”

Men World Ideas Hands Able Form Science Lying Given Steps Knowledge Shapes Spring Add Strikes Stores Bread Interpretation Predecessors

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.”

Knows Want Use Knowledge Know How Shapes Despair Mark Paint Accurate Portraits

Author:Francis Bacon

“The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.”

Earth Knowledge Atheism Ignorance Shapes Ocean Illusion Obstacles Discovering Continents Greatest Obstacles Knowledge And Ignorance Discovering Something

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.”

Knows Knowledge Shapes Structure Solar System Pebbles

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.”

Mind Doe Ideas Hard Hands Knowledge Shapes Stores Doctrine Coins Sharing Knowledge

Book:Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....

Source: Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....