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Misattributed quotes — Karl Popper

1902–1994 Austria

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A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.

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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

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To be ignorant of the past is to remain a child.

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Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride or laziness of mind.

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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Misattributed Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)

When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Popper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.