Quote Varsonofiev, “the Stargazer”
“Who is conceited enough to imagine that he can actually devise ideal institutions? The only people who think they can are those who believe that nothing significant was ever done before their own time, that their generation will be the first to achieve anything worthwhile, people who are convinced that only they and their current idols possess the truth, and that anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a fool or a knave….it’s a univeral law — intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, August 1914
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, August 1914 | bshears January 24, 2010 | 
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