"Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas."

-- Jonah Goldberg

#Liars Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Hypocrite Quotes

“The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?" "I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.”
“I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.”
“Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“Hope is a risk that must be run.”

Source : Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”
“Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.”
“When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again”
“In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.”

Source : Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”
“The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.”

Source : Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.160, Ivy Books

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