We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
Quote by Oliver Wendell Jr. Holmes
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Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.