It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Jonathan Swift
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The Limits of Reason
Posted in Intelligence, Rhetoric, Thinking on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Johnson on Anti-Intellectualism
Posted in Intelligence, Knowledge on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. Samuel Johnson
A Curious Quote
Posted in Imagination, Intellect, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Samuel Johnson
Orwellian Wisdom
Posted in Intelligence on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell
