Bergen Evans Citas

• La libertad de expresión y la libertad de acción no tienen sentido sin la libertad de pensar. Y no hay libertad de pensamiento sin duda.

  Bergen Evans

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Fear

  "The Natural History of Nonsense". Book by Bergen Evans, 1946.

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• El hombre civilizado tiene la obligación moral de ser escéptico, de exigir las credenciales de todas las afirmaciones que pretenden ser hechos.

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  Trust, Wisdom, Men

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• Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

  Bergen Evans

  Leadership, Able, Motivated

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Desire

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• Esa es la esencia de una caza de brujas, que cualquier cuestionamiento de las pruebas o de los procedimientos constituye en sí mismo una prueba de complicidad.

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  Essence, Witch, Proof

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• Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

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  Writing, Glitter, Magpies

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• The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

  Bergen Evans

  Vices, Virtue, Abhorrence

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• El estoicismo es la sabiduría de la locura y el cinismo la locura de la sabiduría.

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  Wisdom, Madness, Cynicism

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• Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

  Bergen Evans

  Mean, Successful, Adjusting

  Bergen Evans (1963). “The word-a-day vocabulary builder”, Ballantine Books

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• Mentir es indispensable para hacer la vida tolerable.

  Bergen Evans

  Liars, Lying, Indispensable

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• Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

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  Leadership, College, Average

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Given, Selection

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• We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

  Bergen Evans

  Past, May

  "The natural history of nonsense". Book by Bergen Evans, 1946.

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• It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

  Bergen Evans

  Writing, Thinking, Punctuation Marks

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• The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

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  Men, Humanity, Religion

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• We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

  Bergen Evans

  Want, Hypothesis, Observation

  The Natural History of Nonsense A Tale of a Tub

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• Un hombre honorable no se dejará intimidar por una hipótesis.

  Bergen Evans

  Men, Honorable Man, Bullied

  The Natural History of Nonsense A Tale of a Tub

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• For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

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  Leader, Way, Following

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

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  Reflection, Vocabulary, Intellectual

  Bergen Evans (1963). “The word-a-day vocabulary builder”, Ballantine Books

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• Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

  Bergen Evans

  Writing, Skills, Confusion

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• There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

  Bergen Evans

  Selección

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• La mayoría de las vidas civilizadas se miden con cucharas de café.

  Bergen Evans

  Coffee, Spoons, Civilized

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