“To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.”
— Friedrich August von Hayek
Author: Friedrich August von Hayek
Category: knowledge
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“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.”
— James Smithson
Author: James Smithson
Category: happiness
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“It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.”
— Anthony Trollope
Author: Anthony Trollope
Category: wisdom
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