The French may be straining the truth in their famous saying that “to understand all is to forgive all”,” but it is certainly true that the more we k… - Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

We are all too fond of naive answers to complex questions, because it relieves us of the necessity of thinking hard and it permits us to find a scapegoat for our own mistakes. The simple answer almost always places the blame on someone else. We need to pluralize our thinking, to recognize that if you ask the wrong question, you cannot get the right answers.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.