 | 1902 - 492 էջ
...himself. He was always ready to acknowledge a mistake or ignorance of a matter, in one letter saying, " I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practice it. I think it an honest policy. Those who affect to be thought to know everything,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1904 - 500 էջ
...not know it. Perhaps you may discover it, and then you will be so good as to communicate it to me.1 I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is,...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practise it ; I think it an honest policy. Those who affect to be thought to know every... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1904 - 498 էջ
...occasion it to stand chiefly on the outside; but recommends it to the farther examination of the curious. find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is,...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practise it; I think it an honest policy. Those who affect to be thought to know every... | |
 | Michael Francis O'Reilly (in religion Potamian), James Joseph Walsh - 1909 - 438 էջ
...and puzzled him. '' The fact is singular,'' he says, "and you require the reason? I do not know it. I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practice it . I think it an honest policy. Those who affect to be thought to know everything,... | |
 | Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 էջ
...not to have wavered. He was merely a seeker after truth. "I find," said he, "a frank acknowledgement of one's ignorance is not only the easiest way to...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practise it; and I think it honest policy." Controversies to protect his own reputation... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1858 - 490 էջ
...in Dove's Repertorium, that it is better, and more for the furtherance of science, openly to confess the deficiencies of our knowledge, than to attempt...magnetizing periods, mentioned in the first memoir. 3. The action of the conducting wire upon itself. 2. The action of different spirals. 4. The influence... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 390 էջ
...Beveridge The Art of Scientific Investigation Difficulties (p. 118) 153 INFORMATION Franklin, Benjamin I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practice it: I think it an honest policy. Those who affect to be thought to know everything,... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 316 էջ
...that mistakes are always possible, and asking others for assistance, clarifications, and criticisms. "I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance...only the easiest way to get rid of a difficulty," he writes, "but the likeliest way to obtain information . . ." (5:526). A fuller formulation of this... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1974 - 260 էջ
...discover it, and then you will be so good as to communicate it to me.* I find a frank acknowledgement of one's ignorance is not only the easiest way to get rid of a difficulty, but the likliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practise it: I think it an honest policy. Those... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, University Press of the Pacific - 2001 - 190 էջ
...occasion it to stand chiefly on the outside; but recommends it to the farther ex$mination of the curious. find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is,...difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practise it; I think it an honest policy. Those who affect to be thought to know every... | |
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I find a frank acknowledgment of one's ignorance is not only the easiest way to get rid of a difficulty, but the likeliest way to obtain information, and therefore I practise it ; I think it an honest policy. 
