[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side]
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.
Tags: science inspirational purpose nature prejudice evolution scientific question ridicule discussion rhetoric ape aimless obstruction preference religious-prejudice
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: individualism independent-thought preference
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: wisdom folly preference
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
Elizabeth ITags: empowerment women freedom marriage self-determination self-reliance independence bachelorhood singles matrimony dignity queens spinsters preference british-monarchy british-royal-family
I'd prefer 'be strong' than 'don't worry'.
Toba BetaTags: preference be-strong don-t-worry
Defeat prefers reactionist.
Toba BetaTags: defeat preference reactionist
Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss.
Toba BetaTags: loss mistake better preference stingy
Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.
Vera NazarianTags: dessert hunger preference hungry main-course
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
Greta GarboTags: empowerment equality women freedom marriage self-determination self-reliance independence bachelorhood self-sufficiency singles matrimony submission preference
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johannes KeplerTags: intelligence criticism approval preference thoughtless
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