Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2018

Post #2536

I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.
—William Paley

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Post #2512

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
—Pythagoras

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Post #2392

To love truth for truth's sake, is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
—John Locke

Friday, April 22, 2016

Post #2060

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
—Claudius

Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Post #1898

The expression of truth is simplicity.
—Seneca

Thursday, June 04, 2015

Post #1829

Weigh not so much what men say, as what they prove: remembering that truth is simple and naked, and needs not invective to apparel her comeliness.
—Sir P. Sidney

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Post #1798

Things seen are mightier than things heard.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson

Friday, March 06, 2015

Post #1765

Truth from the mouth of an honest man, or severity from a good-natured one, has a double effect.
—William Hazlitt

Sunday, June 01, 2014

Post #1562

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye,
Men will believe because they love the lie;
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown,
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
—Charles Churchill

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Post #1329

Give me your testimony in exchange for mine.
—Cicero

Friday, August 02, 2013

Post #1310

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal

Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Post #1268

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
—George Santayana

Monday, March 25, 2013

Post #1217

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is a sign that he wants all the truth.
—Mark Van Doren

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Post #1172

Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
—John Eyberg

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Post #1162

Truth is tough; it will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied...

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