# Delegating Mental Work **URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/delegating-mental-work/1764 **Category:** Elliot Temple **Tags:** bot, cf-article **Created:** [April 11, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/delegating-mental-work/1764 "2023-04-11T16:04:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/elliot/32/14_2.png) [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot) #### Post date: [May 11, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/delegating-mental-work/1764/4 "2023-05-11T22:04:38Z")
> [@MetaCreation](#): > > I’m reminded of a quote from Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill: > [EDIT for context: this is a originally attributed to Henry Ford, when people tried to claim he was “uneducated”] > > > “WHY I should clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I require?” This is a **misquote**. Within the block quote, you put a double quotation marks character preceding the “WHY” which isn’t at that location in the book. And you left out the start of the sentence (with no ellipsis) which breaks the grammar of the quote (breaking the grammar would be bad even with an ellipsis, but is especially confusing without one). And the quote marks character plus the omission work badly together: the inaccurate quote marks character falsely tells readers that there weren’t omitted words at the start of the sentence. The attribution is wrong too. You noticed a problem there, but instead of fixing it, you put a confusing addition in brackets with multiple errors. Misquotes are not allowed on this forum. > [@MetaCreation](#): > > [EDIT for context: this is a originally attributed to Henry Ford, when people tried to claim he was “uneducated”] This is also a **misquote**. Your source doesn’t say that those people claimed Ford was “uneducated”. Misquotes are not allowed on this forum. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/delegating-mental-work/1764)._