Facts Quote by Alfred Marshall

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

— Milton Friedman

“The scholar who knowingly speaks, writes, or teaches falsehood, who knowingly supports lies and deceptions, not only violates organic principles. He also, no matter…

— Hermann Hesse

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In other matters no sensible person will behave so irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line…

— Sigmund Freud

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he…

— Anonymous

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

— Johann Ludwig Tieck

He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks…

— William George Jordan

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

— Periander

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The man who speaks the truth is always at ease

— Persian Proverb