Ethics Quote by Milan Kundera

The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've…

— Milan Kundera

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is…

— Gaston Bachelard

“What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer…

— Milan Kundera

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without…

— George Santayana

I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each…

— Henri Bergson

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the…

— Henry Hazlitt

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

— Helen Keller

“Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“Even the best ideas have a shelf life. Do not think that the way you have done something is the way it should be…

— Nicole Dominique Le Maire

“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and…

— Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could…

— P.W. Catanese