Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image ““We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.”” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We buy the lie that our value comes from what those around us say or think about us. If they feel okay about us,… — Andrew Farley Copy Share Image
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“If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant, it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.” — Charles Bayard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In a world so full of men who hurt the truth and get paid at so much for every groan we hear coming from… — Gwyn Thomas Copy Share Image
“I'm a very truthful person, but if the greater good is best served by a lie then I'll tell it.” — Karina Bliss Copy Share Image
“Sometimes all it takes is one person to speak their truth. Speak yours.” — Catherine Louise Birmingham Copy Share Image
“Every time you claim yourself as inferior to another, you are lying. Every time you condemn yourself for what you have done or could… — Paul Selig Copy Share Image
“But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.” — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I think... people we put on pedestals... they've got that much further to fall when you realize they're human.” — Charles Sheehan-Miles Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
