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Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.James Hervey Johnson
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Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[ Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]Rudolf Carnap