5,159 Quotes About Mean

Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

People think it's being remodeled, ... I tell them, and they say, 'What? What do you mean they're tearing down the old high-school building?'

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Faith means that you have peace even when you dont have all the answers.