Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

—Bernard Baruch

About Bernard Baruch

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Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 19, 1870 – June 20, 1965) was an American financier and statesman.

More quotations from Bernard Baruch

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

—Bernard Baruch

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

—Bernard Baruch

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

—Bernard Baruch

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

—Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

—Bernard Baruch

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In a quarrel, each side is right.

—Yiddish folk saying

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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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Laws bind us. But it is important to remember the law is only what is popular. Not what's right or wrong.

—Marilyn Manson

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That time of day when the sun hasn't come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It's an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you've been given another chance to get it right.

—Cassia Leo in Relentless

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

—G. K. Chesterton

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