Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. -Isaiah Berlin

 

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Isaiah Berlin quotes in our collection. Isaiah Berlin is known for saying 'Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Isaiah Berlin

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Isaiah Berlin

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Isaiah Berlin

For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World.

Isaiah Berlin