Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-180] of 403 Reason quotesReason QuotesReason Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The most fluent talkers or the most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.~ William Hazlitt [T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously—after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.~ Robert A. Heinlein Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.~ Ernest Hemingway Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.~ Heraclitus Force and reason -- which last is the essence of the moral act -- are at the two opposite poles. The one who compels his neighbor... treats him, not as a being with reason, but as an animal in whom reason is not.~ Auberon Herbert Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit...~ Hippocrates Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.~ Adolf Hitler You can never get enough of what you don't really need.~ Eric Hoffer To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.~ Eric Hoffer A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.~ Richard Hofstadter To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils.~ Thomas Holcroft A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be — that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. We should not believe that because ours is a freer, more democratic society, the same imprinting procedure has not occurred even here, in America. Every generation of school-age children has imprinted upon it a politically correct ideology concerning America's past and the sanctity of the role of the state in society. Practically every child in the public school system learns that the "robber barons" of the 19th century exploited the common working man; that unregulated capitalism needed to be harnessed by enlightened government regulation beginning in the Progressive era at the turn of the century; that Wild Wall Street speculation was a primary cause of the Great Depression; that only Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal saved America from catastrophe; and that American intervention in foreign wars has been necessary and inevitable, with the United States government required to be a global leader and an occasional world policeman.~ Jacob G. Hornberger Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.~ Victor Hugo Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent and debate.~ Hubert H. Humphrey Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.~ Aldous Huxley What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print