Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely… — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts;… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us… — William James Copy Share Image
In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission;… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin's grip. What… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
