Holmes Osborne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.

  • You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

  • I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  • If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

  • Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

  • The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

  • Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  • Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

  • A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  • I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.