"The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting."

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Source : Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.201

Ben Jonson

#Life Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”
“Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.”
“Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.”
“May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.”
“Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.”

Source : Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”
“We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump`s plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to do about those 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.”
“Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something....”
“You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.”

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