Calvin-w-allison Quote by Calvin W. Allison

“Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical,…

— Neil Postman

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

“Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths.”

— Dan Brown

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the…

— Henry Hazlitt

“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a theory, no…

— Miltiades Zaphiropoulous

“We've learned too well to become good theoreticians, but have not learned to be good practitioners of what we preach. When ideas from books…

— Cristina Metzli Tzintzun

The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.

— Frances Xavier Cabrini

“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and…

— Raphael Gasson

“Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be ‘absolute’ will eventually change due to ‘new findings’.”

— Gary Hopkins

“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If only the significant history of human thought were to be written,…

— Albert Camus

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“We live in an age where virtually no content is lost and virtually all content is shared. The sheer amount of information about every…

— Chuck Klosterman