H. L. Mencken Quotes About Inspirational
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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
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The more a man dreams, the less he believes.
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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