"As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'"

-- Richard Whately

#Truth Quotes #Believe Quotes #Differences Quotes

“The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2004). “Collected Poems, 1943-2004”, p.395, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.”
“Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.”
“I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.”
“So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.”
“Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time,”
“Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.”

Source : Louise Andrews Kent (1953). “"...with Kitchen Privileges."”
“Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.”

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