Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Quotes

Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Truth
  • Parents

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

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

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Fear

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

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Generation

• The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Truth
  • Free

• Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Evil

• The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Truth
  • History
  • Lies

• I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Truth

• You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Truth

• I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.

  

  Allen West
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Black

• I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

  

  Kelly Miller
  • Truth
  • Taken
  • Justice

• I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.

  

  Kim Harrison
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Thoughts

• In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

  

  Carol Gilligan
  • Different
  • Women
  • Truth

• Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

  

  Lindsay Wagner
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Weed

• This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Peace

• The system of scholastic disputations encouraged in the Universities of the middle ages had unfortunately trained men to habits of indefinite argumentation, and they often preferred absurd and extravagant propositions, because greater skill was required to maintain them; the end and object of such intellectual combats being victory and not truth.

  

  Charles Lyell
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Victory

• Never break faith with the truth.

  

  George Tenet
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • Break

• It is natural that one cannot understand deep and hidden things. Those things that are easily understood are rather shallow.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Deep

• The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Hope
  • Eyes

• I've taken classes most of my life, and it's no secret among my friends I want to be in a movie about dance. Maybe 'Step Up 2,' with the delightful Channing Tatum.

  

  Marsha Thomason
  • Life
  • Up
  • Friends

• Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.

  

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
  • Truth
  • Cost
  • Pursued