Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original… — Caryl Parker Haskins Copy Share Image
“Have you seen anybody dancing? He is totally aware of himself and dances his way in a manner as decided by his… — Maitreya Rudrabhayananda Copy Share Image
If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity. — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
“A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
“Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world,… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“There are no secrets. Nothing is withheld by God. Yet, it is only by our own sincere searching, the evolutionary stage we… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This… — Jeffrey Shallit Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. Wonder is not an obligatory element in… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth,… — David Drake Copy Share Image
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