Orville Wright Quotes

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on; and that will be bad for both.

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

Why should we hesitate to toss the old views overboard.

Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth, but run from those who have found it.

We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?

A lot of people are scared of experimentation because they think you have to be scientists, or they're also scared of it because it means that you have to admit that you don't know the answer. A lot of people like to assume they know the solution to a problem when they don't.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

Science, logic, and truth should not be partisan issues; they are the cornerstones of fields that have made the United States a leader in innovation and a better place for everyone to live.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.