Quotes 561 till 580 of 1376.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
A Room with a View (1908) Ch. 1 -
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
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It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
The Sherlock Holmes Archives (2017) 342 -
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
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It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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