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 DARROWThe nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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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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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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To think is to differ.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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