Cyril Burt quotes
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“Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.”
-- Cyril BurtSource : Cyril Burt (1922). “Mental And Scholastic Test”
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“Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.”
-- Cyril Burt
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“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
Source : Time magazine, November 01, 1963.
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“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”
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“I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.”
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“The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.”
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“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”
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Source : "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.
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“The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.”
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