Agitation Quote by James A. Garfield

I love opposition that has convictions.

— Frederick The Great

“Genuine controversy, fair cut and thrust before a common audience, has become in our special epoch very rare. For the sincere controversialist is above…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds…

— George Orwell

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

— Thomas Jefferson

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the…

— Anonymous

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of…

— Adam Grant

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

— Marcel Proust

“the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is “a peculiar evil.” If the opinion is right, we are robbed of…

— Carl Sagan

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

— Stella Benson

“And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and…

— Karl R. Popper

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

— Allan Bloom