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Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Architecture
Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction, not associated with fact or reality, but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929
This quotation, from John Kenneth Galbraith’s classic title chronicling the stock market crash of 1929, is a warning for all generations. The quote comes from a chapter titled “The Twilight of Illusion,” which discusses the common mental modes in the period leading up to the crash. Galbraith describes these mental modes as a “failure to know what isn’t known.”
The quote has particular relevance for the ...
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