Being true Quote by Richard Adams Download Open image “A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.” — Richard Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being true Desperate Folly Stills
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.' — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
'Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right, by chance — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But it must not be supposed that folly is as powerful as truth, just because it can, if it likes, shout louder and longer… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be” — Pascal Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early--exposing it prematurely to the laughter and skepticism of the world can destroy it before… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Like children in a dark room, like wayfarers passing a graveyard at night, the four men in the canoe filled the surrounding darkness with… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“There's terrible evil in the world." It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Then El-ahrairah knew that Frith was too clever for him and he was frightened. He thought that the fox and the weasel were coming… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.” — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“My lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I have come to give you my life. My life for my people.' The Black Rabbit drew his claws along… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon,… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Intuitionists think that there are cases in which, say, some identity statement between real numbers is neither true nor false, even though we know… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
