Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [241-260] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.~ Billy Graham The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.~ Wavy Gravy I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.~ Horace Greeley As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.~ Richard Grenier Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom.~ A. Whitney Griswold Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.~ Bernhard Haisch The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.~ Lucille S. Harper We Americans have no commission from God to police the world~ Benjamin Harrison Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.~ Elizabeth Harrison 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 The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.~ William Havard We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.~ 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 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 All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.~ 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 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 There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.~ Heinrich Heine Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print