CURATED COLLECTION

Questioning What You Think You Know

The most dangerous thing you can know is something you know for certain — on the virtue of doubt.

20 quotes found

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Writing is the place where language falls ill.

—Diamela EltitNovelist, Essayist & Theorist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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I am bewildered and astonished that men can be so wrong about women.

—Christine de PizanPoet & Writer

Medieval ERA • Western Europe

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The writer is a public menace, a private nightmare.

—Dambudzo MarecheraWriter

Post-War ERA • Southern Africa

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A film that does not disturb you has not told you the truth.

—Yasmin AhmadAuthor & Thinker

Contemporary ERA • Southeast Asia

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If God is found in the temple, who is in the mosque?

—KabirMystic & Poet

Renaissance ERA • South Asia

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All religions are fables, invented by ancient minds to control the masses.

—Al-MaarriPoet & Philosopher

Medieval ERA • MENA

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The minority is always right.

—Henrik IbsenPlaywright

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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Poetry is the last refuge of what resists being useful.

—Ferreira GullarPoet & Critic

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Science means knowing yourself; what else is all this learning for?

—Yunus EmrePoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

—T.S. EliotModernist Poet, Critic

Early Modern ERA • North America

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License they mean when they cry liberty.

—John MiltonPoet & Intellectual

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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The majority is always wrong.

—Henrik IbsenPlaywright

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?

—Friedrich NietzschePhilosopher

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Truth is not what you see, but what you choose to believe, what you build.

—Pham Thi HoaiNovelist & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

—Friedrich NietzschePhilosopher

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The world's people are of two kinds: those with brains but no religion, and those with religion but no brains.

—Al-MaarriPoet & Philosopher

Medieval ERA • MENA

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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional.

—James JoyceNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first.

—KautilyaPhilosopher & Economist

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

—George Bernard ShawPlaywright, critic

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—George Bernard ShawPlaywright, critic

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe