Roger Bacon — "The four greatest stumbling blocks to understanding are: authority, long-standin…"

The four greatest stumbling blocks to understanding are: authority, long-standing custom, the sense of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of one's own ignorance under the show of wisdom.
Roger Bacon — Roger Bacon Medieval · Early advocate of scientific method

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Opus Majus, Part I, Chapter I

Date: c. 1267

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