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.

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.

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

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.

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

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