Alfred Korzybski Quotes
Best 7 Quotes by Alfred Korzybski
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”
“Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.”
“The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.”
“The map is not the territory.”
“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”
Manhood of Humanity Quotes
“Definitions create conditions.”
“If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.”
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“If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual.”