"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation."
-Walter Lippmann
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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.“
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"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."
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"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
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"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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