Ignorant people can't understand, and you only make mischief in supposing it.

It's not wise." To him I reply: "You are afraid to speak the whole truth; I am afraid to hide it.

You are filled with the danger to ignorant people of having out everything; I am filled with the danger to _you_ of suppressing anything.

I do not propose to you that you can with the whole truth make ignorant people profound, but I say you must have the whole truth out for your own salvation." Here is the danger: we see life within certain limitations, and cannot see the possibly infinite significance of something we would put by.

It is of grave importance that we see it rightly, and in the difficulties of the case our only safe course is to take the evidence life offers without prejudice and without fear, and write it down.