Kenneth Arrow on Knowledge
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Kenneth Arrow, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Kenneth Arrow, entry #78801: "As is by now well known, attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox."
Attributed to Kenneth Arrow, entry #115086: "Studying oneself is not the most comfortable of enterprises. One is caught between the desire to show oneself in the best possible light and the fear of claiming more than one’s d…"
3 Quotes by Kenneth Arrow on Knowledge
"As is by now well known, attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox."
"Studying oneself is not the most comfortable of enterprises. One is caught between the desire to show oneself in the best possible light and the fear of claiming more than one’s due."
"I was early regarded as having unusual intellectual capacity. I was an omnivorous reader, and I added to that a desire to systematize my understanding. As a result, history, for example, was not merely a set of dates and colorful stories; I could understand it as a sequence in which one event flowed out of another. This sense of order crystallized during my high-school and college years into a predominant interest in mathematics and mathematical logic."