Bergen Evans
Bergen Evans
Bergen Baldwin Evanswas a Northwestern University professor of English, and a television host. He received a George Foster Peabody Award in 1957 for excellence in broadcasting for his CBS TV series The Last Word...
Bergen Evans quotes about
past
We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.
trust men demand
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
glitter magpies seizing
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
selection
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....
reflection vocabulary intellectual
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.
leadership able motivated
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
vices virtue mere
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.