Herodotus Quotes
Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
Herodotus
Quotes to Explore
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
Natalie Massenet
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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
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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
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis
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If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
Yunus Emre
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A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
Patrick Ness
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One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
Jack Roy
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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
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
Abraham Lincoln
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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
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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
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I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.
Sarah Dessen
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We told each other everything, even the little things, and were happy.
Elena Ferrante
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It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.
Ernest Renan
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.
Herodotus
