"If I limit myself to knowledge that I……" — E F Schumacher
"If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life."
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71 Quotes by E F Schumacher
E F Schumacher has 71 quotes on this site.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up…
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Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not…
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We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls…
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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
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Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest…
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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on…
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to…
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem…
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An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge…
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families…
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