The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- HL Mencken
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies
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3 comments:
awesome quotes. gotta love HL Menken.
Moo!
i love robertson davies, and that sounds quite like him!
thank you for the quotes.
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