Compass Quote by Richard Steele

“Human reasoning does not compass everything in all respects, just as vision does not reveal all things to sight.”

— Burhan al-Din Al-Zarnuji

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in…

— Xenophanes

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

— Bob Gill

“that the truth often lies below the surface, and a man may be a great deal more than his most easily caricatured characteristics”

— Salman Rushdie

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or…

— George Henry Lewes

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

— Michel de Montaigne

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself…

— Philip K. Dick

All things are contrary to a man without discernment But the weapons of perception are wise lips.

— Proverbs 14:7

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in…

— Bruce Lee

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to…

— Pliny the Elder