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.

March 13, 2025

1 year ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

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.

December 30, 2025

7 months ago

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

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