Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-01-12 Jan 12, 2015Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.~ Howard Mumford JonesWho is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?~ Maurice FreehillLiberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge.~ Sir Francis Bacon Jan 9, 2015Whosoever 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.~ HeraclitusA lie has speed, but truth has endurance.~ Edgar J. MohnLiberty is a slow fruit.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Jan 8, 2015Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.~ CatoIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.~ Francis BaconCompared 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 Jan 7, 2015Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.~ Ambrose RedmoonWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit~ AristotleTrue heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.~ Arthur Ashe Jan 6, 2015Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.~ Albert EinsteinWhenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.~ Heinrich HeineWe find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.~ John Dryden Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print