Fooled Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fooled Greek Inspirational Logic
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Non-Euclidean' became a byword for non-absolute knowledge. It also served to illustrate most vividly the gap between mathematics and the natural world. Mathematics was… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate. — George Murray Copy Share Image
The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and… — Lissa Rankin Copy Share Image
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right. — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often. — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
But 40 told me to do me and don't listen to anybody that knew me. Cause to have known me would mean that there's… — Drake Copy Share Image
You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again." "I wasn't. I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to business are… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
