Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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 have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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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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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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