Boomerang Quote by J. I. Packer

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can…

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

“A small bad intention is often far more easily believed than a big one, Magnificence”

— Raymond E. Feist

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

— Henry David Thoreau

By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“But what is equally important, and sobering, is how often we fool ourselves. And we fool ourselves not only individually but en masse. The…

— Lee Smolin

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the…

— William Godwin

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we…

— Carl Sagan

There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of…

— Joseph Addison

When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

— Thomas Hobbes

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius…

— Samuel Johnson

“When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying…

— Criss Jami