Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 403 Reason quotesReason QuotesReason Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear.~ Helen H. Gardner I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.~ James A. Garfield He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.~ Henry George Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed.~ Josiah William Gitt A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.~ Jo Godwin The unnatural, that too is natural.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.~ John Goodwin Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.~ Goya You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.~ Benjamin Graham Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.~ Graham Greene The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.~ Angelica Grimke Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.~ Bernhard Haisch The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.~ Louis J. Halle Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to be effectual, must relate to operations of that power, of which a ready and proper judgment can be formed by the constituents.~ Alexander Hamilton Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.~ Sydney J. Harris Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that society is in some sense more than merely the aggregate of all individuals their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual somersault to the thesis that in order that the coherence of this larger entity be safeguarded it must be subjected to conscious control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an individual mind. It thus comes about that in practice it is regularly the theoretical collectivist who extols individual reason and demands that all forces of society be made subject to the direction of a single mastermind, while it is the individualist who recognizes the limitations of the powers of individual reason and consequently advocates freedom as a means for the fullest development of the powers of the interindividual process.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print