Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Summary

This quote suggests that theories, ideas, and beliefs are personal and subjective, belonging to individuals as their own intellectual property. However, truth is not exclusive or owned by anyone but rather a shared understanding available to everyone. It emphasizes the idea that while each person may develop their own theories, the truth exists independently and does not belong to any one individual. It promotes the importance of recognizing objective truth over personal or subjective perspectives.

Topics

Truth

By Charles Caleb Colton

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!

Food

If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it;

If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democrac

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

Leadership

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

Time Change Thetimes

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone t

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Absence

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Future

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

W. Edwards Deming

Quality

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's liv

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

Attachment

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to yo

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Attitude

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not t

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ambition

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.