Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

You can only have one aim per debate.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Humor is reason gone mad.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

America is just downright mean.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

There are really two core principles at play here. There’s giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there’s keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We’re not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘