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Edward_Bulwer-Lytton
The Few and the Many
"In science, address the few; in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the few. But the few and the many are not necessarily the few and the many of the passing time: for discoverers in science have not un-often, in their own day, had the few against them; and writers the most permanently popular not unfrequently found, in their own day, a frigid reception from the many. By the few, I mean those who must ever remain the few, from whose dieta we, the multitude, take fame upon trust; by the many, I mean those who constitute the multitude in the long-run. We take the fame of a Harvey or a Newton upon trust, from the verdict of the few in successive generations; but the few could never persuade us to take poets and novelists on trust. We, the many, judge for ourselves of Shakespeare and Cervantes."
- Source: Earl Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners (1863), Vol. 2, 329- 30.
- Keywords: Science_quotes Minority_quotes Majority_quotes Literature_quotes Opinion_quotes Judgment_quotes Time_quotes Influence_quotes Persuasion_quotes Popularity_quotes Fame_quotes Trust_quotes Few_quotes Dictate_quotes Force_quotes Discovery_quotes Against_quotes Opposition_quotes Writer_quotes Frigid_quotes Verdict_quotes Generation_quotes Poet_quotes Novelist_quotes
Albert_Einstein
Great Spirits
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
- Source: Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position (19 March 1940)."
- Keywords: Greatness_quotes Mediocrity_quotes Mind_quotes Opposition_quotes Comprehension_quotes Ignorance_quotes Prejudice_quotes Courage_quotes Honesty_quotes Spirit_quotes Incapable_quotes Understand_quotes Refuse_quotes Man_quotes Bow_quotes Blind_quotes Conventional_quotes Choice_quotes Opinion_quotes
Michael_Faraday
Self-Correction
“Among those points of self-education which take up the form of mental discipline, there is one of great importance, and, moreover, difficult to deal with, because it involves an internal conflict, and equally touches our vanity and our ease. It consists in the tendency to deceive ourselves regarding all we wish for, and the necessity of resistance to these desires. It is impossible for any one who has not been constrained, by the course of his occupation and thoughts, to a habit of continual self-correction, to be aware of the amount of error in relation to judgment arising from this tendency. The force of the temptation which urges us to seek for such evidence and appearances as are in favour of our desires, and to disregard those which oppose them, is wonderfully great. In this respect we are all, more or less, active promoters of error. In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.”
- Source: Michael Faraday. Royal Institution Lecture On Mental Education (6 May 1854), as reprinted in Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics, by Michael Faraday, 1859, pp 474-475.
- Keywords: Self-Education_quotes Autodidact_quotes Mental_quotes Discipline_quotes Importance_quotes Conflict_quotes Vanity_quotes Tendency_quotes Self-Deception_quotes Wish_quotes Resistance_quotes Desire_quotes Impossibility_quotes Constraint_quotes Occupation_quotes Thinking_quotes Habit_quotes Self-Correction_quotes Error_quotes Judgment_quotes Temptation_quotes Urge_quotes Evidence_quotes Disregard_quotes Opposition_quotes Wonder_quotes Promotion_quotes Practice_quotes Self-Abnegation_quotes Tribalism_quotes Common_Sense_quotes
Nick_Hodges
Scrum
“I fail utterly to see how scrum is a manifestation of the Agile Principles. In my view, scrum is in direct opposition to them, and in the end, doesn’t even remotely fulfill their purpose.”
- Source: Nick Hodges. “Why Scrum is Dumb”. Published 2024-11-06 in InfoWorld. Retrieved 2024 from https://www.infoworld.com
/article /3599609 /why-scrum-is-dumb.html.
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