AbstractStructure comments on Rationality Quotes Thread December 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 December 2015 11:20:43PM *  1 point [-]

And we must study through reading, listening, discussing, observing and thinking. We must not neglect any one of those ways of study. The trouble with most of us is that we fall down on the latter -- thinking -- because it's hard work for people to think, And, as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler said recently, 'all of the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.'

Thomas Watson

Comment author: [deleted] 04 December 2015 04:19:28AM 1 point [-]

"all of the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.'

I think that this part of the quote is an overstatement.

Comment author: Lumifer 04 December 2015 05:06:11AM 1 point [-]

I actually think it's naive bullshit.