"The problem with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent, full of doubt." " I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine." "No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you try to make it precise." "Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man." "There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." “If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.” ~Rachel Carson