
„The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.“
— Noah Webster lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author 1758 - 1843
"On Telling the Truth" in William and Mary College Monthly (November 1897), VII, p. 53-55
Kontext: If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures … and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.
„The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.“
— Noah Webster lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author 1758 - 1843
— Harry Truman American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953) 1884 - 1972
Statement to Richard Nixon and his wife Pat in 1969, as quoted in The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, p. 44
— Napoleon Hill American author 1883 - 1970
Quelle: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham British politician 1708 - 1778
Speech in the House of Commons (26 January 1741), quoted in Basil Williams, The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Volume I (London: Longmans, 1913), p. 82
1740s
— Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury British politician 1830 - 1903
Speech to the United Club (15 July, 1891), published in "Lord Salisbury On Home Politics" in The Times (16 July 1891), p. 10
1890s
Kontext: There is no danger which we have to contend with which is so serious as an exaggeration of the power, the useful power, of the interference of the State. It is not that the State may not or ought not to interfere when it can do so with advantage, but that the occasions on which it can so interfere are so lamentably few and the difficulties that lie in its way are so great. But I think that some of us are in danger of an opposite error. What we have to struggle against is the unnecessary interference of the State, and still more when that interference involves any injustice to any people, especially to any minority. All those who defend freedom are bound as their first duty to be the champions of minorities, and the danger of allowing the majority, which holds the power of the State, to interfere at its will is that the interests of the minority will be disregarded and crushed out under the omnipotent force of a popular vote. But that fear ought not to lead us to carry our doctrine further than is just. I have heard it stated — and I confess with some surprise — as an article of Conservative opinion that paternal Government — that is to say, the use of the machinery of Government for the benefit of the people — is a thing in itself detestable and wicked. I am unable to subscribe to that doctrine, either politically or historically. I do not believe it to have been a doctrine of the Conservative party at any time. On the contrary, if you look back, even to the earlier years of the present century, you will find the opposite state of things; you will find the Conservative party struggling to confer benefits — perhaps ignorantly and unwisely, but still sincerely — through the instrumentality of the State, and resisted by a severe doctrinaire resistance from the professors of Liberal opinions. When I am told that it is an essential part of Conservative opinion to resist any such benevolent action on the part of the State, I should expect Bentham to turn in his grave; it was he who first taught the doctrine that the State should never interfere, and any one less like a Conservative than Bentham it would be impossible to conceive... The Conservative party has always leaned — perhaps unduly leaned — to the use of the State, as far as it can properly be used, for the improvement of the physical, moral, and intellectual condition of our people, and I hope that that mission the Conservative party will never renounce, or allow any extravagance on the other side to frighten them from their just assertion of what has always been its true and inherent principles.
„Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.“
— Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
„Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.“
— Norman Vincent Peale, buch The Power of Positive Thinking
Quelle: The Power of Positive Thinking
— Alphonse Daudet, buch Tartarin of Tarascon
Le seul menteur du Midi, s'il y en a un, c'est le soleil. Tout ce qu'il touche, il l'exagère!
Quelle: Tartarin de Tarascon (1872), P. 40; translation p. 17.
— Edward Heath Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974) 1916 - 2005
Speech in Wilton Park, Sussex (21 June 1971), quoted in The Times (22 June 1971), p. 5
Prime Minister
— Heinrich Von Kleist German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer 1777 - 1811
Quelle: On a Theatre of Marionettes
— Charles Lindbergh American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist 1902 - 1974
A speech on “Air Power” (29 August 1941)
— Marcelo H. del Pilar Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896) 1850 - 1896
Quelle: Marcelo H. del Pilar to Pedro Icasiano [Pedro Serrano Laktaw] (7 March 1889), in Epistolario de Marcelo H. del Pilar, vol. I, p.43
„The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from.“
— Subhash Kak Indian computer scientist 1947
The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)
— Winston S. Churchill, buch The Second World War
Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940).
The Second World War (1939–1945)
„All men are liars. All women are liars, too.“
— Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Quelle: Burn for Me
— Milton Friedman, buch Capitalism and Freedom
Quelle: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 13 Conclusion
— Edward M. Korry American politician 1922 - 2003
Upon hearing of Allende's election.
Unsourced
„We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.“
— E. Lockhart, buch We Were Liars
Quelle: We Were Liars