The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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 John Maynard Keynes
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began...
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
