Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Love
  • Man
  • Stronger

• Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Consequences

• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Career

• The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • You
  • Journalism

• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Stronger

• If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Propaganda

• I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Behind
  • Preach

• After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Opinion
  • Learn
  • Doing

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Acting
  • Story

• Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Cannot

• But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Believe
  • Opinion
  • Humble

• I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Truth
  • Marriage

• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Think
  • Purpose

• In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Opinion

• I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Truth

• The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Mysterious

• There stood a man with his sword drawn, and his face all over with blood. Then said Mr. Great-Heart, Who art thou? The man made answer, saying, I am one whose name is Valiant-for-truth. I am a pilgrim, and am going to the Celestial City.

  

  John Bunyan
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Art

• People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Truth
  • Friends
  • Humiliation

• Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

  

  Vincent McNabb
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Goodness

• If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Person
  • Crime
  • Tendency

• Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Inequality

• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Stronger