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“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”
― Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
― Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
“Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”
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“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
― The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
― The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
“As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn’t have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself.
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A’s. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A’s. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.”
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A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.”
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“We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”
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“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“History never repeats itself, historians do.”
― The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case
― The Concept of Jacksonian Democracy: New York as a Test Case
“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
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“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
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