215 quotes found
“A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather ...”
“As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.”
“The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.”
“When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.”
“One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.”
“Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.”
“The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.”
“Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.”
“Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.”
“When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.”
“He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.”
“Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.”
“There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.”
“Historical revisionists find what they set out to find.”
“As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; th...”
“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has a tendency to put ...”
“The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.”
“an unintentionally hilarious 84 percent of users answer this match questionWould you consider dating someone who has a vocalized a strong negative bias toward a certain race of people? In the absol...”
“With the rationalization of culture, and the corresponding disenchantment of religious ideas and beliefs, the modern world is ordered increasingly upon instrumentally rational grounds, and hence or...”
“A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.”
