Bergen Evans Quotes
- Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
- The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit…
- The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
- Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,…
- It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is…
- Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity…
- Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
- Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
- We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
- For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
- That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
- The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
- Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful…
- There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....
- Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
- 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…
- An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
- There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will…
- 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…
- Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.