The mind cannot foresee its own advance.Friedrich August von HayekTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
“To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.”Friedrich August von HayekSociety
“I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.”
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBrainy
“I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.”Nelly FurtadoBrainy
“If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.”Ezra Koenig
“Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?”Friedrich August von HayekCase
“If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.”Friedrich August von HayekSociety
“The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.”Friedrich August von HayekScience
“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”Dag HammarskjoldBrainy