Ideas Progress Truth Quotes

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.”
― Ovid

“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Neither the Channel nor the Rhine will arrest its progress. It will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.”
― Thomas Paine

“There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution”
― John Gray, Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

“Modern humanism is the faith that through science humankind can know the truth- and to be free. But if Darwin's theory of natural selection is true this is impossible. The human mind serves evolutionary success, not truth. To think otherwise is to resurrect the pre-Darwinian error that humans are different from all other animals. (...) There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution.(...) Among humans, the best deceivers are those who deceive themselves: 'we deceive ourselves in order to deceive others better'. A lover who promises eternal fidelity s more likely to be believed if he believes his promise himself; he is no more likely to keep his promise.(...) In a competition for mates, a well-developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage.”
― John Gray, Perros de paja: Reflexiones sobre los humanos y otros animales

“Turn yourself into an idea and you shall never be forgotten by humanity, for bodies die, but not ideas with true potential for progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Saint of The Sapiens

“You’ll never know if your ideas are sound until they are challenged.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Great ideas don’t have to be forced on people.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One