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' .
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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
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
more Sir Walter Besant quotes
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.
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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.
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Heathen, n. A benighten creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
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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
The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.
more Josh Billings quotes
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
more Jim Bishop quotes
I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.
more Justice Hugo L. Black quotes
A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.
more William Blake quotes
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
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
more Napoleon Bonaparte quotes
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
more Daniel Boorstin quotes
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
more Jorge Luis Borges quotes
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
more Ludwig Börne quotes
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
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
more Ashleigh Brilliant quotes
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
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
more Bellamy Brooks quotes
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
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
more Merry Browne quotes
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
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.
more William Cullen Bryant quotes
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
more James Buchanan quotes
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
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
more Pearl S. Buck quotes
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
The pen is mightier than the sword.
more Edward Bulwer-Lytton quotes
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
more Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton quotes
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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
more Edmund Burke quotes
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
more Edmund Burke quotes
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
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
more Nicholas Murray Butler quotes
I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
more Samuel Butler quotes
Men willingly believe what they wish.
more Gaius Julius Caesar quotes
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
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
more Albert Camus quotes
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
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