In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"The best of all lost arts is honesty."
"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty."
"But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
"You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there."