Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
BERGEN EVANSWe see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
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For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
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Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
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A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement.
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
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We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
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That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . .
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There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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