If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. —James McNeill Whistler More about this quote Tags: conversation talking frustration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rarely an hour passed that they didn't argue about something. They had lived together for so many years that they mistook their arguments for conversations. —Marjorie Kellogg More about this quote Tags: relationships communication conversation arguments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? —Philip Roth More about this quote Tags: understanding intelligence manufacturing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
On their return journey from the South Pole, Scott's party was beset by fearful blizzards. Oates suffered badly from frostbitten feet, which were turning gangrenous. He begged to be left behind so as not to slow up the others. His companions would not hear of it, and they struggled on for another day. The following morning the blizzard was still raging. Oates said, "I am just going outside and may be some time." He then walked out of the tent and vanished forever into the storm. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. —Robert Brault More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have never but once succeeded in making him tell a lie, and that was by a subterfuge. "Moore," I said, "do you always speak the truth?" "No," he replied. I believe this to be the only lie he ever told. —Bertrand Russell on George Edward Moore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. —Alan Simpson More about this quote Tags: honesty integrity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth: left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide. —Fay Weldon More about this quote Tags: truth effort avoidance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs. —Myrtle Reed More about this quote Tags: happiness depth secret hiding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. —Alexander Solzhenitsyn More about this quote Tags: truth error comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature. —Laozi More about this quote Tags: nature fault Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Tags: truth discovery knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: honesty truth privacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email