In a recent conversation with an official at the Internal Revenue Service, I was amazed when he told me that 'If the taxpayers of this country ever discover that the IRS operates on 90% bluff the entire system will collapse' .more Henry Bellmon quotes |
In order to get the truth, conflicting arguments and expression must be allowed. There can be no freedom without choice, no sound choice without knowledge.more David K. Berninghausen quotes |
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently,
how shall we do this in a bad time?more Daniel Joseph Berrigan quotes |
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If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.more Mary McLeod Bethune quotes |
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.more Ambrose Bierce quotes |
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.more Ambrose Bierce quotes |
Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.more Ambrose Bierce quotes |
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As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind... Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.more Ambrose Bierce quotes |
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The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.more Jim Bishop quotes |
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.more Niels Bohr quotes |
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.more Charles Bradlaugh quotes |
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.more Robert Brault quotes |
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.more David Brinkley quotes |
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.more Jacob Bronowski quotes |
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment & happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.more H. Jackson Brown, Jr. quotes |
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The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.more Sir Thomas Browne quotes |
It 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.more Giordano Bruno quotes |
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.more Pearl S. Buck quotes |
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.more William F. Buckley, Jr. quotes |
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.more Buddha quotes |
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.more Buddha quotes |
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.more Buddha quotes |
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It 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.more Luther Burbank quotes |
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As compared with impulsive commitment to the first idea which dawns, that is, with intuitive action, reasoning is patient, exploratory of other possibilities, and deliberative.more Edwin Arthur Burtt quotes |
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.more John Cage quotes |
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.more John C. Calhoun quotes |
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When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.more Al Capone quotes |
