“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”
More from Terry Pratchett on Truth
“YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.”
“I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.”
“Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.”
“It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.”
“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mark Twain
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Cervantes
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Aesop
7 quotes“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
Patrick Rothfuss
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Malcolm X
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George Orwell
6 quotes“It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They c...”
Napoleon
6 quotes“All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.”
Thomas Jefferson
6 quotes“It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
Tacitus
6 quotes“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”