22 Quotes by Ian Leslie

It reminds us that knowledge is inherently unreliable.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

What makes us so adaptable? In one word, culture – our ability learn from others, to copy, imitate, share and improve.

A society or an organization that thinks only in terms of puzzles is one that is too focused on the goals it has set, rather than on the possibilities it can’t yet see.

What made him exceptional were a ferocious will to succeed and a burning sense of epistemic curiosity. Jobs was interested in everything: the Bauhaus movement, the.

A policy of deliberate ignorance is often adopted by those who wish to protect their own power.

Society is held together by communication and information. Samuel Johnson.

It’s only people, as far as we know, who look up at the stars and wonder what they are.

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.