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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Adlai E Stevenson Jr
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we don't understand.
Frank Herbert
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
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I think Einstein meant common sense that involves prejudice or bias, not practical objective common sense. He meant conventional, judgemental thinking, more than practical open-minded thinking. Open vs. narrow or closed; outside vs. inside the box.
ReplyDelete[1st comment continued] It's the open ability to learn to think and see, inside and outside the box, for more open knowledge and understanding. Open, broader knowledge and understanding lead to open, increasing, greater wisdom.
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