Bergen Evans Quotes

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

We may be done with the past but the past is not done with us.

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Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.