Quotes from Bergen Evans

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

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

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

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Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

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

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

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

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.