Believe Quote by H. L. Mencken

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Like toddlers and tyrants, we are quick to take our own stories for the infallible truth, and to dismiss as wrongheaded or wicked anyone…

— Kathryn Schulz

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered…

— H.L. Mencken

Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

— Galway Kinnell

“Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we're ridiculous, isn't that true? For it's actually so, we are ridiculous, light-minded, with bad…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Here then was the paradox of the President’s speech. We normals—aided, doubtless, by our wish to be fooled, were indeed well and truly fooled…

— Oliver Sacks

“You can easily see what and endless, wearisome and fruitless task it would be if I were to refute all the unconsidered objections of…

— St. Augustine

“There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of wonder become…

— Oliver James

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”

— Edgar Allan Poe