Quotes
Only if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future…
– Albert Einstein
…there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men — above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
– Albert Einstein
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, — blown and flared by passion’s storm, — and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.
– Robert Green Ingersoll,
[Our] principles [are] founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason.
– Thomas Jefferson,
It is surely time for men to think for themselves…
– Thomas Jefferson,
It is an established maxim and moral that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood…
– Abraham Lincoln,
Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
– James Madison,
Truth is the foundation, the superstructure, and the glittering dome of progress. Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles, and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth. Truth gives man the greatest power for good. Truth is sword and shield. It is the sacred light of the soul. The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
–Ingersoll
Each man, in the laboratory of his own mind, and for himself alone, should test the so-called facts — the theories of all the world. Truth, in accordance with his reason, should be his guide and master.
–Ingersoll
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.
–Paine
You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
–Paine