A few good ones...

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

-- Robertson Davies


The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

-- Herbert Spencer


elucidate: to make clear or manifest.

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