Viliam_Bur comments on Rationality Quotes July 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 04 July 2012 06:04:50PM *  3 points [-]

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

-- Thomas Sowell

Retracted, because it's a duplicate.

Comment author: gwern 05 July 2012 02:02:22AM 7 points [-]

"Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation."

--Dr. Samuel Johnson; "The Life of Cowley", Lives of the English Poets (1781)

Comment author: Nominull 04 July 2012 07:25:48PM -1 points [-]

duplicate

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 05 July 2012 08:52:11AM 3 points [-]