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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 27, 2022Categories external authority, knowledgeTags Albert Einstein

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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