Ted Cruz Quotes

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as adults it's no surprise that if we discuss the nature of it all, we generally spout some combination of the two, depending on our individual inclination and mood.

In some ways the fact that you are sometimes confronted with people who have such an opposite view to you on certain issues in many ways reinforces that identity that you have.

The risk a lot of times, in my mind - and I may be incorrect - the risk of challenging people directly with their beliefs is that society is such that there's too many of us, so a direct challenge automatically engages people's defenses.

If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.

The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Heart and head are contrary historians.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.

What I believe is important is that we win the battle of ideas.

Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. It'll do your mind good and get your heart rate up.

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

We believe whatever we want to believe.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

You believe what you want to believe