Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dance
  • First
  • Vocation

• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Truth
  • Hurt
  • Unless

• I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Business
  • Truth

• Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Consequences

• We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • First
  • Independence
  • Needed

• Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Yourself
  • First
  • Patience

• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Thought
  • Innocent

• I always put my boxing first.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Always
  • First
  • Boxing

• My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

  

  Vince Carter
  • First
  • Actually
  • Dunk

• The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Truth
  • Doing
  • Truth Is

• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Think
  • First
  • Contract

• I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Young
  • First

• 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

• Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Leader
  • First
  • Union

• I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.

  

  Candice Olson
  • First
  • I Can
  • Interior

• I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Truth
  • Small

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• Augmented reality is the 'boy who cried wolf' of the post-Internet world - it's long been promised but has rarely been delivered in a satisfying way.

  

  Om Malik
  • World
  • Long
  • Reality

• Komm, geh mit angeln, sagte der Fischer zum Wurm.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht

• A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Believe
  • Liberty
  • Evidence

• Out of all of the stuff I have done in my whole 12 years, the Mistress series I and II are the most enjoyable processes I've ever been through and definitely, I'm most proud of that music.

  

  Jay Sean
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Enjoyable

• First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Truth
  • First
  • Outrage