Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 19
Introduction, Collected Works of Ken Wilber, vol. VIII (2000) http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/cowokev8_intro.cfm/ <br class="br">Context: The real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought about including them in your own worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all of the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum. I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. To Freudians I say, Have you looked at Buddhism? To Buddhists I say, Have you studied Freud? To liberals I say, Have you thought about how important some conservative ideas are? To conservatives I say, Can you perhaps include a more liberal perspective? And so on, and so on, and so on... At no point I have ever said: Freud is wrong, Buddha is wrong, liberals are wrong, conservatives are wrong. I have only suggested that they are true but partial. My critical writings have never attacked the central beliefs of any discipline, only the claims that the particular discipline has the only truth — and on those grounds I have often been harsh. But every approach, I honestly believe, is essentially true but partial, true but partial, true but partial.<br>And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Source: A Way to Be Free: The Autobiography of Robert LeFevre, Volume I, (1999), p. 19
Mozi (-470–-391 BC) Chinese political philosopher and religious reformer of the Warring States period
Book 4; Universal Love III
Mozi
Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
Notes, 1985; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: 'on Other subjects' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/other-aspects-6 <br class="br">1980's
Julien Benda (1867–1956) French essayist
There again we see that the frenzy of impartiality, like any other frenzy, leads to injustice.
Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), pp. 187–188
“There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Source: Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
"Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html in The New York Times (9 April 1967) <br class="br">Context: It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either. People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.
Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 17
“It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.”
Dallin H. Oaks (1932) Apostle of the LDs Church
Part Two Transcript http://www.pbs.org/mormons/etc/script2.html, The Mormons, Dallin H. Oaks, 2007
“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture