"The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it."

-- William M. Evarts

#Truth Quotes #Too Much Quotes #World Quotes

“If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.”
“Sometimes, 'no' really does mean no.”
“I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.”
“Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.”

Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.80, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.”

Source : Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.
“People have different ideas of who I am. And I think because I'm very private, people make up the strangest ideas of who and why and what.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I think when you fall in love, like true love, itâ€™s love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.”
“A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.”

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