Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-01-05 Jan 5, 2023The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.~ Albert EinsteinAll truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.~ Arthur SchopenhauerThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.~ Ayn Rand Jan 4, 2023If you believe everything you read, you better not read.~ Japanese ProverbStop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment.~ Jesus of NazarethIf you add to the truth, you subtract from it.~ The Talmud Jan 3, 2023This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error; that in the competition of the marketplace of ideas, the sounder ideas will in the long run win out.~ Elmer DavisPeople have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.~ Frank NorrisThe truth is found when men are free to pursue it.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Jan 2, 2023I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian... we can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.~ Chief Joseph Dec 30, 2022Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.~ Alfred Lord TennysonIt is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.~ Blaise PascalAnd, finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print