"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."

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Source : Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan, The Fabulous Wilson Mizner (1935)

Wilson Mizner

#Faith Quotes #Education Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged....”
“While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.”

Source : Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com.
“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.167, Profile Books
“It's frightening that skepticismÂ has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way”

Source : "The TAM London 2010 live blog" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.
“The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.”

Source : "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.
“The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear. . . . Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it!”

Source : John Henry Jowett (0101). “My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year”, p.363, Prabhat Prakashan
“we're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.”
“Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.”

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