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.

September 26, 2025

10 months ago

It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.

May 9, 2025

1 year ago

No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him

December 14, 2025

8 months ago

No example is so dangerous, as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

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