Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 88 Experimentation quotesExperimentation QuotesExperimentation Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.~ Eric Hoffer I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.~ Billie Holiday Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.~ Horace It is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free.~ Thomas Jefferson Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.~ Thomas Jefferson Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man’s conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.~ Carl Gustav Jung Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.~ John Keats Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.~ Jamaica Kincaid Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.~ Harold D. Lasswell A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God you learn.~ C. S. Lewis One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.~ Joshua Liebman Within seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000.~ F. J. Lucas It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.~ Thomas Mann If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.~ Justice Thurgood Marshall All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.~ H. L. Mencken Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print