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It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
Lincoln Steffens
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Lincoln Steffens
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: April 6
Died: 1936
Died: August 9
Autobiographer
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San Francisco County
California
Lincoln Austin Steffens
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We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.
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It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.
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The best picture has not yet been painted the greatest poem is still unsung the mightiest novel remains to be written the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.
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If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
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In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.
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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
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The unknown is the province of the student it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
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The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
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I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
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The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
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I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
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It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done not often.
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Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.
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I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.
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Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
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In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
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Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
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The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
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