The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow…

— John Updike

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events…

— Evo Morales

You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend:…

— Aristophanes

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

— Aristophanes

“A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.”

— Simona Panova

THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I…

— William Blake

During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman…

— Robert Dallek

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much…

— Euripides

If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had…

— Pietro Metastasio

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine;…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

— James F. Cooper

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

— Bill Vaughan

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

— William Jennings Bryan