We Have Been Cocksure Of Many Things

It's A Good Thing To Be Rich And A Good Thing To Be Strong, But It Is A Better Thing To Be Beloved Of Many Friends.

I Think It Not Improbable That Man, Like The Grub That Prepares A Chamber For The Winged Thing It Never Has Seen But Is To Be - That Man May Have Cosmic Destinies That He Does Not Understand.

Certitude Leads To Violence. This Is A Proposition That Has An Easy Application And A Difficult One. The Easy Application Is To Ideoologues, Dogmatists, And Bullies--people Who Think That Their Rigtness Justifies Them In Imposing On Anyone Who Does Not Happen To Suscribe To Their Particular Ideology, Dogma Or Notion Of Turf. If The Conviction Of Rightness Is Powerful Enough, Resistance To It Will Be Met, Sooner Or Later By Force. There Are People Like This In Every Sphere Of Life, And It Is Natural To Feel That The World Would Be A Better Place Without Them!

In My Opinion, Economists And Sociologists Are The People To Whom We Ought To Turn More Than We Do For Instruction In The Grounds And Foundations Of All Rational Decisions.

There Are Many Things Which We Can Afford To Forget Which It Is Yet Well To Learn.