The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
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