Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [341-360] of 403 Reason quotesReason QuotesReason Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.~ Andrei Sakharov Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.~ Carl Sandburg [I'm too old to] be influenced by newspaper arguments. When I read them I form perhaps a new opinion of the newspaper but seldom a new opinion on the subject discussed.~ George Santayana No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.~ Leonard Schapiro All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.~ Arthur Schopenhauer Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is quality rather than quantity that matters.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Man is a reasoning animal.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Remember, however, before all else, to strip things of all that disturbs and confuses, and to see what each is at bottom; you will then comprehend that they contain nothing fearful except the actual fear.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.~ Dr. Seuss The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.~ George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.~ George Bernard Shaw Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.~ George Bernard Shaw The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.~ George Bernard Shaw You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'~ George Bernard Shaw One of the most pathetic — and dangerous — signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.~ Thomas Sowell While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim -- or arrogation -- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.~ Thomas Sowell 'What freedom does a starving man have?' The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.~ Thomas Sowell The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.~ Herbert Spencer Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print