Quote by Isaiah Berlin
"To understand why someone holds a belief, you must first understand what they stand to lose if that belief is false."
More from Isaiah Berlin
"The greatest achievement of the human mind is the understanding that the world is very strange and beautiful."
"Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience."
"If the ends do not justify the means, what does?"
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."