Alan Simpson Quotes

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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan Simpson

An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Alan Simpson

We must persuade girls who want this sort of [career] satisfaction to press against the masculine fortress and scale some of the heights.

Alan Simpson

It is not a choice of marriage or a career, or of marriage and a career, but of a life lived in phases, each with its opportunities for fulfillment.

Alan Simpson

It is a curious fact that we style everything in this country — our cars, our homes, our clothes — except our minds. They still chug along like a Model T — rugged, persevering, but far from graceful.

Alan Simpson

The vital aid to clear thought is the habit of approaching everything we hear and everything we are taught to believe with a certain skepticism. The method of using doubt as an examiner is a familiar one among scholars and scientists, but it is also the best protection which a citizen has against the cant and humbug that surround us.

Alan Simpson