Herodotus Quotes
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
Herodotus
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
Gabrielle Giffords
I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
Natalie Massenet
I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
Nathan Outteridge
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
Nancy Kerrigan
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis
If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
Yunus Emre
A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
Patrick Ness
One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
Jack Roy
A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
Tom Stoppard
Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
Abraham Lincoln
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
John Tillotson
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
Plato
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.
John Ruskin
The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.
Leonardo da Vinci
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
Niger Innis
Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Even good hearts know how to turn bad touch and genocide into clichés just to make room for more comfort.
Buddy Wakefield
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
Herodotus
