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Gordon Dickson: Citations en anglais
“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”
Gordon R. Dickson
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Dorsai!
“Protector II” (section 19, p. 490)
Dorsai! (1960)
The Mortal and the Monster, in Stellar Short Novels edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey, p. 23
Short fiction
“Exaggeration of confidence,” he said, “is a fault in people who don’t know their business.”
Gordon R. Dickson
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Tactics of Mistake
This is an early statement of what would come to be known as the Dunning–Kruger effect.
Source: Tactics of Mistake (1971), Chapter 20 (p. 315).
“And someone that brilliant must be a devil?”
Gordon R. Dickson
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Dorsai!
queried Galt, dryly.
“Not at all,” explained Donal, patiently. “But having such intellectual capabilities, a man must show proportionately greater inclinations toward either good or evil than lesser people. If he tends toward evil, he may mask it in himself—he may even mask its effect on the people with which he surrounds himself. But he has no way of producing the reflections of good which would ordinarily be reflected from his lieutenants and initiates—and which, if he was truly good—he would have no reason to try and hide. And by that lack, you can read him.”
“Mercenary II” (section 4, p. 386)
Dorsai! (1960)
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