Quotes Library

March 12, 2025

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American scientist, Ideas and Opinions of Albert Einstein (1954), Seldes p.119

Name five occasions when you were careless with the truth? Six? Too many to cite?

Beware white liars. Of course, not every one of them will become a big liar, but every big one started out as a white liar.

February 12, 2025

1 year ago

Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go well together.

January 12, 2025

1 year ago

It is a great error to speak of the things of this world absolutely and indiscriminately and to deal with them,

May 4, 2025

10 months ago

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

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