A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was… — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image