There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation |
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation |
There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation. |
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded |
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him |
To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth |
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious |
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced |
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. |
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong |
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man |
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. |