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ON THE CONNECTION
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
~David Hume

As a culture we seem to have trouble distinguishing science from pseudoscience, history from pseudohistory, and sense from nonsense.
~Michael Shermer

Credo Consolans. More than any other, the reason people believe weird things is because they want to. It feels good. It is comforting. It is consoling.
~Michael Shermer

ON THE CONDITION
The best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
~Yeats

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~Voltaire

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
~Bertrand Russell

The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.
~Eric Hoffer

Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
~Gore Vidal

ON THE FUTURE
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
~Thomas Paine

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
~Harriet Woods

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
~Henry David Thoreau

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
~Benjamin Franklin