Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of…

Berlin, Isaiah. "The Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico." Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas. Viking Press/Hogarth, 1976, pt. 1.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman · 1903

Another quote aboutTopic·Nature of progress

Truth…never comes into the world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

John Milton

1643

Another quote aboutTopic·Nature of progress

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

1969

Another quote aboutTopic·Progress

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

1853

Another quote aboutTopic·Progress

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Isaiah Berlin

Two Concepts of Liberty · 1958

Another quote byPerson·Isaiah Berlin

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Progress

Book · 1962

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

Book · 1957

The Cairo Trilogy

Naguib Mahfouz

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save… — Isaiah Berlin

Related quotes

Other media