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Quotes on Truth and Human Nature

This document contains over 50 quotes from various notable figures throughout history spanning different topics such as politics, religion, science, art and more. Some of the quotes discuss the nature of reality, truth, and human behavior while others offer witty observations or aphorisms on life.
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Quotes on Truth and Human Nature

This document contains over 50 quotes from various notable figures throughout history spanning different topics such as politics, religion, science, art and more. Some of the quotes discuss the nature of reality, truth, and human behavior while others offer witty observations or aphorisms on life.
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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946) "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

" - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure w hile the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) "Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "His ignorance is encyclopedic" - Abba Eban (1915-2002) "If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton (1885-1945) "Political correctness is tyranny with manners." - Charlton Heston (1924-2008) "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding realit y." - Ayn Rand (1905-1982) "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig (1948-) "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer." - Saint Thomas More (1478-1535) "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster th an anybody who can write better." - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which the y avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." - Saint Augustine (354-430) "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can b e counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sur e about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pa nts on." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."

- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sens e, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) "We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins (1941-) "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola (1840-1902) "This book fills a much-needed gap." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apar t." - e e cummings (1894-1962) "Give me a museum and I'll fill it." - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "Assassins!" - Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra "I'll moider da bum." - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shak espeare "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." - Yogi Berra "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode" "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of o ur friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947) "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns (1896-1996)

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to en joy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) "There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002) "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when yo u do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996) "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996) "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) "Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides (556-468bc) "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." - Salvador Dali (1904-1989) "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dan ce." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who do n't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-) "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) "We have art to save ourselves from the truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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