Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, People, Soul

• The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, Moving, Knowledge

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

• New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, Writing, Media

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