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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character.
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character.
Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern
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- Dallas Willard
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- Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Dallas Willard: life dates 1935 to 2013. Wikidata Q1158014, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1158014 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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