“We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

Commencement address, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (11 June 1962) http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3370
1962
Context: The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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35th president of the United States of America 1917–1963

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Source: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 73

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