Their Readiness Quotes
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. — H. L. Mencken
- Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. — Mahatma Gandhi
- The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable… — Thomas Huxley
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. — Ambrose Bierce