"Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval."

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Source : W. Arthur Lewis (2013). “Theory of Economic Growth”, p.172, Routledge

W. Arthur Lewis

#Ideas Quotes #Progress Quotes #Being Free Quotes

“When I eat better, I perform better.”
“I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.”
“Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can't stop them, but you can make the choice to keep your walls up and not let them affect you.”
“Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.”
“Your ears are yours alone. Tell others what you alone can hear. Your voice is yours alone. Tell others what only you can say. Your eyes are yours alone. Show others what only you can see.”
“From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldnâ€™t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.”
“The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the â€œI doâ€ of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.”
“A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.”

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