Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult…

— Daniel Kahneman

Theory can blind observation.

— Carol Gilligan

“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can…

— Richard Howells

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

— Imre Lakatos

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…

— David Hume

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

— Albert Einstein

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

— J. Frank Dobie

“Real blindness is the absence of the knowledge that one is blind.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

— Immanuel Kant

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

Blindness is being fresh out of creative ideas.

— Grass Hopper

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

— Hosea Ballou