Help! I cannot remember the exact quote, nor who said it and it's driving me crazy. It's a popular quote and it's far more eloquent and humorous than my rewording.
2007-06-11 17:28:56 · 5 answers · asked by caffeinatedmom2 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
There are several famous quotes along these lines, but probably the most famous is this:
"Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth." - Mohandas Gandhi
Others worth mentioning:
"I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?" - H.D. Thoreau
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public." - George Carlin
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein
I hope that helps.
2007-06-12 02:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by El Guapo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm for conservation too, and that i hit upon those expenditures all slightly 'wooly'. they do no longer likely propose lots. i think of environmental followers in basic terms prefer to help the international and don't prefer to disagree with fellow environmental leaders as they like to maintain peace in the international! (:
2016-10-09 00:55:55 · answer #2 · answered by bramwell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did find something along those lines, not attributed to any "celebrity" and will copy and paste so that you can see the context in which it was said. I found this on a philosophy website.
FOR GOD: Everything I know of comes, ultimately, from outside of myself. I know of the existence of
a being greater than which nothing can be conceived, namely God. There is nothing in my experience
which ought to make me know this, so it must have come from elsewhere, namely from God Himself.
(Rene Descartes)
AGAINST GOD: The fact that you can conceive of something, doesn't make it true. You can imagine
all sorts of infinitely great and perfect things — the perfect island, the perfect answer to a philosophy
question — but that doesn't make them exist. Furthermore, 'existing' isn't a property of things. It isn't
something which they might or might not have, like 'being blue' or 'getting hot', it is something which
has to come first to make the concept real — you can't just tag it on after. Quite a lot of modern
theologians, Don Cupitt being one, try to get round this by arguing that God doesn't exist as a being,
but He does have 'real' existence as the abstract projection of our moral and religious ideals. Though
how that differs from 'god doesn't exist' I don't know. (Immanuel Kant)
2007-06-18 13:00:08 · answer #3 · answered by tanagila0530 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular." I don't know who said this, but maybe you could find out.
Although my favorite book, The Lord of the Rings, includes the line "To crooked eyes the truth may wear a wry face."
2007-06-11 17:41:42 · answer #4 · answered by Barry D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"Everything popular is wrong." - Oscar Wilde
Is it one of those? If it isn't, I hope you find the one it is.
2007-06-12 04:49:24 · answer #5 · answered by Independence_Individuality 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋