Great saying by great authors Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.…

— Samuel Johnson

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all…

— Lysander Spooner

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

— Voltaire

“The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth…

— H.L. Mencken

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man…

— Anonymous

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom,…

— Angelina Grimke

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

— George Bernard Shaw

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

— Jules Verne