We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them.… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
With supreme irony, the war to make the world safe for democracy ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than at any… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
