Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [281-300] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes 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 The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.~ B. H. Liddell Hart A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however, socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.~ Caryl Parker Haskins Lying can never save us from another lie.~ Vaclav Havel No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.~ Nathaniel Hawthorne 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 It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.~ 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 Causes that live by politics, die by politics.~ Steven F. Hayward The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy.~ William Hazlitt Fraud may consist as well in the suppression of what is true as in the representation of what is false. If a man professing to answer a question, select those facts only which are likely to give a credit to the person of whom he speaks, and keep back the rest, he is a more artful knave than he who tells a direct falsehood.~ Justice Heath This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.~ Simon Heffer The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.~ Robert A. Heinlein There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.~ Heisenberg To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.~ Claude-Adrien Helvetius There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.~ O. Henry It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.~ Patrick Henry We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.~ Patrick Henry I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.~ Patrick Henry Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print