Surrender Quotes (2)

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open.
In Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906), Vol. 1, 101.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
In The Roving Mind (1983), 6.
See also:  |  God (121)  |  Ignorance (62)  |  Premature (3)  |  Remain (3)

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