Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-12-17 Dec 17, 2013Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.~ Charles DickensThe real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.~ Robert G. IngersollSit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Dec 16, 2013The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.~ Josef StalinI can’t think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.~ Neal BoortzThe simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.~ Proverbs Dec 13, 2013The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.~ AristotleThere is a lurking fear that some things are not meant “to be known,” that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.~ Carl SaganPeople may or may not say what they mean...but they always say something designed to get what they want.~ David Mamet Dec 12, 2013You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.~ John LeoThe function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it passes for acceptance of an idea.~ Justice William O. DouglasFor the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.~ Niccolo Machiavelli Dec 11, 2013It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.~ Justice William O. DouglasI was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone.~ David CarrQuis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)~ Juvenal Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print