Declan Donnellan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
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.
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.
I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

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