Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.

To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.

Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren't the demons we've expected them to be.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.