Cases Quote by Ada Lovelace

“Every advance in our acuteness of perception will show us something thing new; but the old and first-discerned thing will still be there, not…

— John Ruskin

“When being objective, we can transcend and look back at our constructs with powerful clarity; instead of looking through them, which can give a…

— Jay Woodman

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the…

— Anonymous

People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it…

— Kevin Hearne

The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter…

— Max Planck

“We can judge the inestimable value of concepts, and consequently of the faculty of reason, if we glance at the endless multitude and variety…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

— Blaise Pascal

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.

— Lady Caroline Lamb

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced…

— Eric Hoffer

“Of course, ideas can always be misleading—but then so can numbers. Still, we advance by learning new ways to think, even if those ways…

— Steven E. Landsburg

Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one…

— Anonymous

“Sometimes it is when we stop trying to understand or interrogate apparently 'absurd' phenomena - like the category of the 'new' in art- that…

— Zadie Smith