"When they think they know the answers, people are difficult to guide." When they know they don't know, people can find their own way." Tao Te Ching
"He who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." Thomas Jefferson
"Information is the currency of democracy." Thomas Jefferson
"It is error alone which needs support of government. Truth can stand by itself." Thomas Jefferson
"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts." Thomas Jefferson
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion." Thomas Jefferson
"There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world." Thomas Jefferson
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises a formidable outcry in defense of custom." Thomas Paine ('Common Sense')
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" T. S. Eliot
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top." - [Unknown]
"Do not force others, including children, by any means whatsoever, to adopt your views, whether by authority, threat, money, propaganda, or even education." - Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
"Common sense is not so common." Voltaire, 1764
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." Voltaire
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
"The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.” Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill
"To be paranoid means to believe in delusions of danger and persecution. If the danger is real, and the evidence credible, then it cannot be delusional. To ignore the evidence, and hope that it CANNOT be true, is more an evidence of mental illness." William Blase
"Falsehood is an amorphous monster, conceived in the brain of knaves and brought forth by the breath of fools. It's a mortal pestilence, a miasmic vapor that passes, like a blast from hell, over the face of the world and is gone forever. It may leave death in its wake and disaster dire; it may place on the brow of purity the brand of the courtesan and cover the hero with the stigma of the coward; it may wreck hopes and ruin homes, cause blood to flow and hearts to break; it may pollute the altar and disgrace the throne, corrupt the courts and curse the land, but the lie cannot live forever, and when it's dead and damned there's none so poor as to do it reverence." William Cowper Brann
"Knowledge is essential to freedom." William Ellery Channing
"There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." William James
"The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information." Justice William O. Douglas
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." Winston Churchill
"It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." W. K. Clifford | 
