Harry Frankfurt Quotes

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

Harry Frankfurt

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• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Truth
  • Plan
  • Truth Is

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • History
  • Future
  • Black

• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • True

• Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Truth
  • True

• Your assumption, and the truth, dine at totally separate tables.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Truth
  • Assumption

• Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

  

  Andy Goldsworthy
  • Work
  • Art
  • Lies

• A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • Lies

• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances. Care for distress at home and care for distress elsewhere do but help each other if, working together, they wake men in sufficient numbers from their thoughtlessness, and call into life a new spirit of humanity.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• He who died at Azan sendsThis to comfort all his friends:-Faithful friends! It lies I knowPale and white and cold as snow;And ye say, 'Abdallah’s dead!'Weeping at the feet and head.I can see your falling tears,I can hear your sighs and prayers;Yet I smile and whisper this:I am not the thing you kiss.Cease your tears and let it lie;It was mine-it is not I.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Friends
  • Lies
  • Cold

• Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Truth
  • Broken

• Nowhere are emissions monitored constantly. So the truth is that the real quantity of dioxin emissions from incineration remains unknown.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Unknown

• If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

  

  Alison Weir
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

  

  Plato
  • Lies
  • Slavery

• I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • Truth
  • Song

• In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Assumption

• Honestly, when I first heard that there were rumors out there about me being gay, I thought, 'Wow, someone must really hate me.' There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I just couldn't understand why someone would make up lies like that.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Hate

• We cannot allow ourselves to be prejudiced against a subject, based upon what someone else has said or just upon the difficulty we encounter in learning.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Learning

• I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Jesus
  • Choices
  • Dreams

• It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

  

  Harry Frankfurt
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Conviction