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I may be wrong and you may be ...

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

If you know that things are bo...

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

Reason like science, grows by ...

Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

Every discovery contains an ir...

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

The quest for precision is ana...

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

I have learned more from Hayek...

I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

I have spoken to Einstein and ...

I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

[To] interpret Parmenides as a...

[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

Better our hypotheses die for ...

Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

It can't happen here is always...

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

Rationalism is an attitude of ...

Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that 'I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth.'

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

We do not know anything - this...

We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

The future is always present, ...

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

Plato felt that a complete rec...

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

With regards to political enem...

With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

It is part of my thesis that a...

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

We are social creatures to the...

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

We do not know. We can only gu...

We do not know. We can only guess.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

A rationalist, as I use the wo...

A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather than by violence. He is a man who would rather be unsuccessful in convincing another man by argument than successful in crushing him by force, by intimidation and threats, or even by persuasive propaganda.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

You cannot have a rational dis...

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.

Karl Raimund Popper 179 quotes

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