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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

—Pierre Beaumarchais

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.

—Sir Terry Pratchett

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

—W.E.B. Du Bois

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

—Jef Mallett

The innocent feel guilty, the guilty feel nothing.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

—George Jean Nathan

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

—Benjamin Jowett

A wet man does not fear rain.

—Russian Proverb

It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.

—Malcolm Forbes

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

—Bertolt Brecht

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

—Carl Jung

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

—H. L. Mencken

Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.

—Bill Watterson

Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.

—Benny Hill

Hell is truth seen too late.

―Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

—Francis Bacon

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

—Daniel Webster

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

-Voltaire

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

—Jerome K. Jerome