"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."

Trust, Belief, Values, Illusion, Reason

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"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."

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"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion."

Karen Marie Moning, American Author

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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"A man in loss is not a man to trust."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."

James Cash Penney, American Businessman

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"He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."

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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

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"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."

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"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."

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"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"

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"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

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