Giordano Bruno Quotes

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

Those who never retract their opinions, love themselves more than they love truth.

The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.

Denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the conscious and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed.

Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding.

Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

Conventional wisdom is not always wrong.

John Chancellor said he could remember a time when arguments could be settled by government statistics. Today, nobody’s statistics can be trusted.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Governments pale in the face of truth. It’s the one thing they fear most.

Most men … can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.

As always, whenever I'm contacted by the White House, I'm just humbled.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

Many teachers seem to believe their opinions are right, and therefore, all other viewpoints are wrong. And they are indoctrinating our children with their beliefs.

I am what I was before joining films. Nothing has changed, and I hope nothing will ever change. I'll always remain the way I am.