George H. Smith Quotes

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

George H. Smith

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• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Bad
  • Perfect
  • Simple

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Thought

• I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Age
  • Learn

• It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

  

  M. Ward
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Me

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• Every role is a new form of surrender.

  

  Laura Dern
  • New
  • Role
  • Surrender

• Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Spiritual
  • Brothers

• I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Music
  • Age
  • Fashion

• The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Revolution
  • Enlightenment

• The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything-I am being sympathetic, not satiric-for the very best reasons.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Done
  • Road

• To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

  

  Hannah More
  • Words

• Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • View
  • Conditions

• A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Time

• Raffi: Well, um, Taylor said only girls wear nail polish and so I, so I said but I'm a boy and I'm wearing nail polish, and so you're wrong!Clarice: Raffi, I'm proud of you! That was a very smart thing to say!Raffi: And then I kicked him.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Proud
  • Boy
  • Smart

• I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Attention

• GQ: 'Who’ll be the first of the Smiths to die?'M: 'Me. I’ll be shot – probably by one of the ex-Smiths.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Die

• The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its 'mission.' The church supports the emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • God
  • Power
  • Truth

• When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Purpose
  • Curiosity

• As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Life

• One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

  

  George H. Smith
  • Truth
  • Committed
  • Conformity