Comments on: Academic humility http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/asimong/2012/02/21/academic-humility/ Cetis blog Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:13:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 By: Phillipus http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/asimong/2012/02/21/academic-humility/#comment-188 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:07:01 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/asimong/?p=1041#comment-188 Insightful.

I’m reminded of Colin Wilson’s observation of what he calls the “Right Man”, the person (in his examples, male, hence “Man”) who *always* has to be right and has an opinion on everything. And you know what they say about the similarity of an “opinion” and the rear part of the human anatomy – everyone has one.

I love the freedom and lightness that comes from saying “I don’t know”. From this starting point we can move towards something.

Robert Fripp says that “In order to do something, first we have to learn how to do nothing”.

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]]> By: rowin http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/asimong/2012/02/21/academic-humility/#comment-186 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:39:45 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/asimong/?p=1041#comment-186 What a wonderful post. I agree that it’s the areas of uncertainty that make us (well me anyway!) want to learn and explore; experts who cut that off through the pressure to Be Right suffocate curiosity.

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