"Self knowledge is always bad news." — John Barth

More Always Bad Quotes

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• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. — Ludwig von Mises
• Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is… — Bill Moyers
• Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not… — Tony Dungy
• An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain de Lille
• Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise… — Lord Acton
• Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art. — Sherwood Anderson
• The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the… — Denis Diderot
• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only… — Lord Acton
• Darkness is not always bad, just as light is not always good. — P. C. Cast
• Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!' — Demetri Martin
• And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to… — Brandon Sanderson
• Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. — Remy de Gourmont

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