Famous quotes containing the words abuse and/or excuse:
“The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)
“Knowledge is more important than life, captain. We’ve only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.”
—Charles Lederer (1910–1976)