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“With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.”

Men Way Has Beens I Can Two Done Whole Age Science Evidence Ears Plenty Explanation Two Things Ems Riding Tails Inflation Headlines

Author:Will Rogers

“The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.”

Men Blood Evidence Ears Beast Breeding

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.”

Ifs Born Evidence Ears Musical Intellect Seeds Sophistication

Book:Only One Year

Source: Only One Year

“But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.”

Thinking Men Eye Evidence Ears Contrary Preserves Abstract Reasoning Logical Construction Closing Neat

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.”

“The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.”

Ifs Humor Funny Literature Laughing Judging Months Six Laughter Humorous Evidence Ears Jail Penalties Six Months Jury Courtroom Judge And Jury

Author:H. L. Mencken

“One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.”

Heart Eye Able Understanding Answers Party Essentials Intellectual Evidence Argument Ears Finals Debate Enormous Command Ease Subtle Rejects

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984