Free Thought Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective… — Ulysses S. Grant
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon… — Stephen A. Douglas
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought,… — H. W. L. Poonja
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate… — William O. Douglas
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed. — Horace Greeley
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of… — Hubert Harrison
Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where… — Heber J. Grant
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave. — Euripides
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they… — H. L. Mencken
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole… — John Stuart Mill
Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially… — Savitri Devi
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old,… — H. L. Mencken
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought. — James Joyce
It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it… — Joel Shepherd
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by… — Leo Tolstoy
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat… — William O. Douglas

Who Wrote These Free Thought Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 23 Free Thought Quotes as follows: