It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
- Topic: Speech, Thinking
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.
Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.
Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.
Understanding a question is half an answer.
