Cyril Burt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
-- Cyril Burt

#Ignorance #Poor #Proof
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.
-- Cyril Burt

#Country #America #Cynical

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...
It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.

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