Character Quote by Bergen Evans

“The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.”

Bergen Evans

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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…

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We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . 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. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they…

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Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

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It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it…

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“We may be done with the past but the past is not done with us. Show more Show less”

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There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom…

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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that…

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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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Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often…

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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

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