"But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge."

-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Doubt Quotes #Questioning Quotes #Standpoint Quotes

“How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”
“I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out.”
“When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.”
“Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.”
“King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.”
“Never underestimate human stupidity.”
“I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.”
“The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.”

Source : "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.

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