Isa Blagden famous quotes

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.
-- Isa Blagden

#Truth #Lying #Interesting

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.