Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Questioning one's beliefs✕clear

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every court house, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

1951

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.

Bertrand Russell

1912

★ 3.5

Personal journal

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

1904

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

Meditations on First Philosophy · 1641

★ 6.3