Freethinker Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freethinker Inspirational Love Thoughtful
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
“There is no freedom in any religion. Only the Freethinker is free…” — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin? — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if they would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The First Human (Sonnet 2632) Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't. My time is born of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what we carve… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
