There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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