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.
CLARENCE DARROWHuman action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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