He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe woman that deliberates is lost.
Joseph AddisonThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George EliotIn assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.
Robert Baden-PowellThe advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar WildeHalf a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIntense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S. TrumanAfter many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
Charles SpurgeonOnly enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen KingWhen should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will RogersI don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
Haruki MurakamiDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonTell the children the truth.
Bob MarleyI think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
Madeleine AlbrightHaving unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.
David ByrneBy a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel KantI have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
Vivienne WestwoodLying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
Albert CamusIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan PoeThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VoltaireNo government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas JeffersonFor my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.
Lando NorrisI wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.
Joyce MeyerIt is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.
Greta ThunbergJustice is truth in action.
Benjamin DisraeliIt was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous HuxleyThe truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. RowlingYou know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
John SteinbeckFor those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.
Billy GrahamIn too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.
Anthony BourdainNon-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mahatma GandhiThe new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
Niccolo MachiavelliI don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
Elon MuskRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauIf the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George WashingtonIf you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.
Tom BradyTelling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. LewisYou should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.
Jordan PetersonForgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Joyce MeyerI have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Richard M. NixonDispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Abraham MaslowThe problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.
John KennedyThe press is the enemy.
Richard M. NixonThe American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.
Joe BidenThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin DisraeliThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George EliotIt is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. MenckenOnce I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
Edmund HillaryTo summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.
Noam ChomskyRichard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S. TrumanIt takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Warren BuffettConcentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew CarnegieWisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Herbert HooverIt makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel JohnsonWe don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
George W. BushWe all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. LewisThe issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.
Michelle ObamaThe last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.
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