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George Bernard Shaw1 quote
All great truths begin as blasphemies. — George Bernard Shaw · 1918Jerome Bruner1 quote
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. — Jerome Bruner · 1960John Kenneth Galbraith1 quote
It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958Matthew Arnold1 quote
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold · 1875Walter Pater1 quote
Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced. — Walter Pater · 1873