Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

• Love Of Truth
• Moral customs
• Essential standards
• Scientific laboratory

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• The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Myself

• I know about raising money.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Money
  • Know
  • Raising

• Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

  

  Elizabeth Berg

• The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Truth
  • Funny

• What's incredible about 'Hamilton,' and the reason you can't get a ticket, is because everyone's responding to it. Everyone is seeing a bit of themselves in it.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

• KING: There's a lot of killing in the name of Christ in history.

  

  James Dobson
  • History
  • King

• Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

  

  Eric Sevareid
  • Trust
  • Doubt

• My mother would only let us go to the musicals.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Mother

• I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

  

  Euripides
  • Today
  • Eternity
  • Drain

• A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Pain
  • Failing
  • Beautiful Thing

• I don't have children, but my work life is as important to me as anything could be. I've dedicated a lot of time and energy and years to it. Some might say some of my childbearing years to it. In and of itself, my work is like a child to me. That is my reality.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Important
  • Children
  • Reality

• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Education
  • Dogmatic
  • Love Of Truth

• The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Genius
  • First Thing
  • Love Of Truth

• Almighty Father! let thy lowly child, Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,-- A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled. Let him live usefully, and not die old!

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • Father
  • Child
  • Almighty

• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Love Of Truth
  • Moral customs
  • Essential standards