To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

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

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.