Julius Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood famous quotes

The priceless heritage of the free and independent interchange of thought is not to be kept without ceaseless vigilance. Only by guarding the truth itself can we guard the greatest of all our liberties-the right to proclaim the truth. On that liberty rests the destiny of millions.
-- Julius Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood

#Truth #Independent #Destiny

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

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.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

Our choices determine our destiny

The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.