The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if… — Pope Leo XIII 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
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech.” — John Bagnell Bury Copy Share Image
“Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.” — Richard Puz Copy Share Image
“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.” — Margaret A. Edwards Copy Share Image
In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is a way up to the skies, up to the stars, up to the beyond, up the eternity. That way is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the quarrel is not against any particular points of hard digestion in the Christian system, but against religion in general; which, by… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace… — André Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much… — D.A. Wallach Copy Share Image
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“That so many of the well fed young television-watchers in the world's most powerful democracy should be so completely indifferent to the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
