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Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow was British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952). Explore interesting quotes on thing.

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“No one can possess what we call good judgement, which is about the same thing as an instinct for recognizing Reasonable Probabilities, whose mind is not trained to follow truth. And in many of the most important things of life. Reasonable Probabilities are our only guides.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19-20

“Truth is the only foundation of honour, and the surest source of a man's influence with his fellow-men. When you come across someone of whom those who know him say "so-and-so told me such and such a thing, so it must be true" you are dealing, believe me, with a man to be reckoned with. But there are other aspects of Truth not quite so obvious as those with which I have been dealing. We have been thinking about Truth as between ourselves and others. There is also, and just as important, the matter of Truth within ourselves.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19-20

“War is an evil thing.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

26 March 1940, Speech at St. John Ambulance Association and Indian Red Cross Society, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 241