Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Political correctness is a loaded gun that the individual holds to their own head. Where laws can’t stomp on freedom of speech,… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies Copy Share Image
“However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The state has not only the obligation to stay neutral in matters of religion but also to ensure that freedom of thought… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are… — Hal Hellman Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, he stressed in scores of letters and statements that Americans should not let the fear of communism cause… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Among those liberties which we in this UNION claim for the child, due to him as a person, is freedom of thought,… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“What matters is the need to move from the rigidity of national stereotypes towards something more truly human; what matters is to… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“So long as you believe yourself to be 'only human' you have accepted life in a prison cell whose door remains locked… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“The downfall of liberty which in every case followed the success of these attacks demonstrates in hard facts what we said before:… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Never,” said he, as he ground his teeth, “never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Ask the majority of Christians what they consider the greatest evil from which Christ freed humanity and they will say: from Hell,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Let your eyes see what they see, not what others want you to see. Let your ears hear what they naturally hear,… — Liezi Copy Share Image
“There is a universal reservoir, the source of all knowledge, which is the same for the arts and sciences as for philosophy… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
