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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

H. L. Mencken
Inspirational, Men, Progress
H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

H. L. Mencken
Inspirational, Nature, Truth
"What I Believe". The Forum Magazine, Issue 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken
Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom
H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. Mencken
Inspirational, Drinking, Knowledge
"A Mencken chrestomathy". Book by Henry Louis Mencken, 1949.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

H. L. Mencken
Inspirational, Funny, Humor

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

H. L. Mencken
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
H.L. Mencken (1920). “Prejudices Second Series”

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

H. L. Mencken
Inspirational, Funny, Underdog
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

H. L. Mencken
Inspirational, Education, Dream
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.303, Vintage

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