"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Truth Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Imitation Quotes

“We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.”
“When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.”
“In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.”

Source : Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage
“The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.”
“Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.”
“Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1868). “History of Civilization in England”, p.349
“You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.”
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”

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