"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."

--

Source : Herodotus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herodotus (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

Herodotus

#Trust Quotes #Eye Quotes #Men Quotes

“The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.”
“Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.”
“Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.”
“I was basically 18 when I got offered to join Mister Valentine band and go on tour and leave high school. I was pretty stoked on that, but the band wasn't really my style so after like six months of playing with them I decided to play with the aesthetic of a DIY hardcore band playing pop music. That was the original idea.”
“I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.”
“Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.”

Source : Ruth Nanda Anshen (1959). “The family: its function and destiny”
“You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.”
“I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don't write, and make more money.”

You may also like:

Aeschylus
Dramatist
Aristotle
Philosopher
Darius I
King
Euripides
Writer
Hippocrates
Physician
Homer
Author
Pericles
Greek Statesman
Sophocles
Playwright
Thucydides
Historian