I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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John Cage
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
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B.W. Powe
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of...
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John F. Kennedy
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas — complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
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George F. Kennan
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
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Jonah Lehrer
More Quotes By Brooks Atkinson
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.
