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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.


John Quincy Adams

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JEFFREY FRY It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
ARCHBISHOP RICHARD WHATELY It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do
RICHARD WHATELY Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
DAN ARIELY The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one hal...
KENNETH GRAHAM The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half a...
KENNETH GRAHAME I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed n...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE So long as there are men there will be wars. So long as there are men there will be wars.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there sprin...
FEDERICA MONTSENY I believe that all men and women will be saved.
PAT BUCKLEY The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God ca...
THOMAS MERTON As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no...
BEATRICE WOOD One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays a...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope....
CHARLES SAWYER A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent
DANISH PROVERB Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anyt...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...
BRAM STOKER I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we pr...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as lo...
JONATHAN HAIDT Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
GOETHE “Honesty exists as long as parents teach their children to be truthful. Bravery exists as long as ...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school ...
C.S. LEWIS Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or mo...
THOMAS HOBBES Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more...
THOMAS HOBBES Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
LORD BYRON GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be fri...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You can be anything you want to be, as long as you believe in yourself.
MICHELLE WORTHINGTON You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
LINCOLN STEFFENS To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I refuse to believe that all men are pigs and women competing whores.
ANASTASIA Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -...
JOHN ADAMS Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
JOHN ADAMS Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach me...
ROLAND ALLEN If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evi...
BARUCH SPINOZA Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as the...
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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can ...
DAVID HOCKNEY The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true...
EMERSON I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell yo...
G.K. CHESTERTON All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN All men would be tyrants if they could.
DANIEL DEFOE All men would be cowards if they could.
EARL ROCHESTER I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
JULIUS CAESAR But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are hon...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Show respect for all men, but grovel to none.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB You may not find it normal, but as long as we're all born human we should be entitled to the same ri...
MARCUS GONZALES That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he s...
THOMAS HOBBES That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he s...
THOMAS HOOD In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retir...
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike...
THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...
MARCEL PROUST To believe your own thought, to believe that that what is true for you in your private heart is true...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don't b...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G. K. CHESTERTON The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G.K. CHESTERTON Some, I verily believe, delight to be slave-men; it is a joy to them, and they would not change thei...
RICHARD JEFFERIES Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me...
MAHATMA GANDHI Men willingly believe what they wish.
JULIUS CAESAR For all men would be cowards if they durst
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I
believe especially in being ...
D.H. LAWRENCE All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artist...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the re...
CHRIS ANDERSON It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .
DOROTHY MILLER RICHARDSON As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of thei...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inherita...
ALAN WATTS Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritanc...
ALAN WATTS Men should be what they seem;Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he...
MICHELE BACHMANN Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all t...
DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.The Difference lies, as far as I can see,Not in the t...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.
CHARLES JOHN DARLING Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break
CHARLES JOHN DARLING Almost no men like to be addressed as BOY by any women; but, most of the women love to be recognized...
ANUJ SOMANY It's a little hard to believe 40-year-old men as high school students.
TIM VAN PATTEN Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
PLINY THE ELDER Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
JULIUS CAESAR Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be m...
ALBERT CAMUS You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them...
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JOHN ADAMS Laws for the liberal education of the youth, especially of the lower class of the people, are so ext...
JOHN ADAMS There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to liv...
JOHN ADAMS It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man
JOHN ADAMS I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My ...
JOHN ADAMS Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the...
JOHN ADAMS Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in h...
JOHN ADAMS Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found with...
JOHN ADAMS The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, th...
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