Absolutes Quote by Alan Greenspan

“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely…

— Matt Taibbi

Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we…

— Gore Vidal

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

— Thomas Jefferson

“A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.”

— Will Bowen

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

— Edward Tufte

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

— Brendan Myers

“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

— John Lubbock

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn…

— Paul Ryan

“Subjectivism maintains that there are no objective moral truths.”

— David Edmonds

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral…

— David Hume

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

— John Ralston Saul