Quotes with truth-and-a-half

Quotes 2221 till 2240 of 25898.

  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Aristotle All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Joseph De Maistre All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Andrea Dworkin All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Epictetus All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Christopher Marlowe All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ruth Ross All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
    Ruth Ross
    New Zealand historian (1920 - )
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  • Anna C. Brackett All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • Albert Einstein All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barry Cornwall All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Roger Bacon All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Alan Dershowitz All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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