Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-03-07 Mar 7, 2023Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all, she will have nothing. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.~ Clarence S. DarrowFreedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.~ Felix FrankfurterPersecution, whenever it occurs, establishes only the power and cunning of the persecutor, not the truth and worth of his belief.~ H. M. Kallen Mar 6, 2023Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.~ C. S. LewisWhenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.~ Edward GibbonThe greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.~ Frederick the Great Mar 3, 2023If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.~ Rene DescartesThe unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.~ Walter LippmannWisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.~ Herman Hesse Mar 2, 2023Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.~ Martin LutherHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.~ Napoleon BonaparteThe Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.~ Max Lerner Mar 1, 2023It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.~ Giordano BrunoIt is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.~ Luther BurbankA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print