G. L. S. Shackle Quotes
We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
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The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
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A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.
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She made me laugh. I will miss her. Baba Wawa.
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'Don’t lose your temper,' said Ruell evenly. 'It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.'
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So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
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Over-diversification is a hedge for ignorance.
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Vergeef me, ik heb niet voor niets de naam een bundeltje tegenspraak te zijn!
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I love strong encryption. It protects us in so many ways from bad people. But it takes us to a place - absolute privacy - that we have not been to before.
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Fox has always allowed us to be ourselves. They've never told us what we can say, what to say, what not to say.
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We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
