"Few new truths have ever won their way……" — Isaiah Berlin
"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated."
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28 Quotes by Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin has 28 quotes on this site.
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by…
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all…
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they…
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to…
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny…
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Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any…
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When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to…
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
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More Established Quotes
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and…
— Alan Ball
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
— Honore de Balzac
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If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
— P T Barnum
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of…
— John Berger
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover…
— Wendell Berry
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The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of…
— Annie Besant
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may…
— Edward de Bono
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