I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROWIt is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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