We continue to think of new things in old ways.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.