"There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion."

-- Benjamin Jowett

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Character Quotes

“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
“Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.”
“I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.”
“It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.”
“The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.”

Source : Jim Wright (1966). “The Coming Water Famine”, New York : Coward-McCann
“Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!”
“Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eye.”

Source : Oeuvres vol. 7, introduction (1812 - 1820)

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