Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-03-30 Mar 29, 2002To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.~ Theodore RooseveltWhat basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.~ Dr. G. Brock Chisolm Mar 28, 2002If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.~ Stanley GarnThe beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.~ Chinese Proverb Mar 27, 2002I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.~ Patrick HenryThe wise learn from the experience of others, most from their own experience, and fools not at all.~ Proverb Mar 26, 2002Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.~ Charles MingusThe secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.~ VoltaireThe only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.~ Stanislaw Jerszy Lec Mar 25, 2002In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.~ Galileo GalileiThe truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since the earliest days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings.~ H. L. Mencken Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print