Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

Wilhelm Steinitz

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Book
  • Truth

• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Always

• I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Behind
  • Preach

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

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Important
  • Truth

• One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Things
  • Enemy

• If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Beliefs

• You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Good
  • Truth

• Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Soul

• In truth, Jesus did not, in his own time, attract much notice.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Jesus

• Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Long
  • Truth
  • American

• When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • God
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

  

  David Mamet
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

  

  Dixie Lee Ray
  • Done
  • May
  • Truth

• There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • World
  • Women
  • Truth

• If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Truth
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Stop

• …but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Truth
  • Training
  • Conversation

• Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

  

  Dorothy Allison
  • World

• Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance. They're just healthy little fires that are gonna warm up my ass

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Future
  • Past

• I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • People
  • Life
  • Giving

• Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Truth
  • Enemy
  • Guide