Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.
- Topic: Truth, Wisdom
- Location: Grand Staircase-Escalante
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.
Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
