Quotes with controversy

  • Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ''crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.

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  • Arthur Winter Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.
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  • Ben Bernanke Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Thomas J. Watson Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ''crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.
    Foreword, The Marxists (1962)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Lyman Beecher No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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  • Thomas Carlyle The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Judith Martin The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
    Judith Martin
    American etiquette expert (1938 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Martin Luther King The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Adam Ferguson We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • William Hazlitt When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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