I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right….Dead, but right. – Edward R. Murrow

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For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon

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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. – Aleister Crowley

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The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy — when properly aged. – Hubert Humphrey

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