Bergen Evans Quotes

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
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Bullied Honorable Man
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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Freedom Selection Wisdom
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
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Day Fear Freedom Memorial
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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Abhorrence Vices Virtue
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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Essence Proof Witch
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one’s vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.
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Intellectual Reflection Vocabulary
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
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Cynicism Madness Wisdom
We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
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Hypothesis Observation Want
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
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Civilized Coffee Spoon
Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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Glitter Writing
For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
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Following Leader Way
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . .
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Average College Leadership
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can’t resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.
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Marks Punctuation Thinking Writing
We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
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May Past Through
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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Given Selection Wisdom
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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Interested Labor Leader Much Newspaper Publisher
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
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Able Leadership Motivated
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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Humanity Men Religion
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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Men Statement Trust Wisdom
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
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Indispensable Liars Lying
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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Following Going Leader Marshal Most

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