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- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
- Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
- He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
- Don Juan Manuel (1282 - 1349)
- They always talk who never think.
- Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
- The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
- Henry S. Haskins
- No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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