Abuse Quote by Eugene Ionesco

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

— Eugene Ionesco

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

— William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference…

— William James

“ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion”

— Patricia Crone

Truth happens to an idea

— William James

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

— Robert Pinsky

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

— William James

“If an idea is true it belongs equally to all those capable of understanding it; if it is false there is no reason to…

— Thomas Garrett Isham

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to…

— Lydia Davis

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

— William O. Douglas

... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our…

— John Stuart Mill

I think that a lot of social movements, political movements, powerful ones - certainly they form, collectively, an idea of the truth which becomes…

— Julian Baggini