William Harvey Quotes

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

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• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Truth
  • Spirit
  • Worst

• All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Like
  • Saying

• The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Good
  • Education
  • Purpose

• It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Reality
  • Rock

• You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Writing
  • You
  • Saying

• The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances-of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Universe

• There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men

• I'm absolutely amazed when some people say I am either hard or uncaring, because it's so utterly untrue. I can't say it because, if you say you are caring, it's like saying, ‘I'm a very modest person.’ Nobody believes you.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Caring

• As man now is, God once was:As God now is, man may be.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • May

• I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

  

  Peter Brimelow
  • Education
  • Productivity

• My mom raised a self-aware kid. I wasn't like the typical alpha male. I wasn't afraid to sing, you know? I wasn't afraid to be in musicals.

  

  Khalid
  • Mom

• I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

  

  Donald Berwick
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Relationship

• With 'The Leftovers,' I was actually super, super lucky. It was my first major audition. When I came out, the casting director was kissing me on the face, and I was like, 'Oh, that's probably a good sign.'

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Good

• A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.

  

  Janet Weiss
  • People
  • Band

• It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home.

  

  Loni Love
  • Home
  • Single

• I love New York. I went to New York to become an actress, and I did it. And I won all the awards known to man. And I'm happy. And I came home. I came, I saw, I conquered. And it feels great.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Great
  • Home
  • Happy

• I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happy
  • Books
  • Fragrance

• However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Eye

• When I went in for the Embraced DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.

  

  Brigid Brannagh
  • Human Beings
  • Good Lord
  • Extra Effort

• Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Idea

• It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Partisans
  • Cultured Man
  • Vegetable Diet

• I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

  

  William Harvey
  • Partisans