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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• Tell the truth.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Truth
  • Tell

• 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

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• 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

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• 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

• I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Death

• Every truth-if it really is truth-presents itself as universal, even if it is not the whole truth. If something is true, then it must be true for all people and at all times.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • People
  • Truth
  • True

• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

  

  Aulus Gellius
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

  

  Martin Gardner
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

• By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Faith
  • Jericho

• Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Joy

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

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
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