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.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.

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

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.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

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.

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.