"It has always been desirable to tell the……" — Arthur Balfour
"It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary."
—
Arthur Balfour
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
28 Quotes by Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour has 28 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Enthusiasm moves the world.
-
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
-
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
-
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
-
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of…
-
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
-
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
-
I never forgive, but I always forget.
-
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,…
-
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
-
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its…
-
Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have…
See all 28 quotes by Arthur Balfour »
More Been Quotes
This quote is filed under Been Quotes,
one of 43,316 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
— Aaliyah
-
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
-
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
-
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
— Aristotle
-
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
-
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
-
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
-
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
See all 43,316 Been Quotes »