“2084. He that does not speak Truth to me, does not believe me when I speak Truth.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“2084. He that does not speak Truth to me, does not believe me when I speak Truth.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Preface to Love Ballads of the Sixteenth Century (1897) http://books.google.com/books?id=hAiaEy_NVoEC&q=&quot;I+rather+like+the+world+The+flesh+is+pleasing+and+the+Devil+does+not+trouble+me&quot;&pg=PA5#v=onepage. <br class="br">Context: Most Authors cringe and flatter and Fish for compliments. If they fail to get Applause, they say the World is a Scurvy Place and those who dwell therein a Dirty Lot: if they succeed, they give thanks to Nobody, saying they got only what their Meritt entitles them to. But I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 61, “Jackass, Jackass” (p. 454)
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
“A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”
Tom Bissell (1974) American journalist
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist
"Lying in Politics"
Crises of the Republic (1969)
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
As quoted in "Stupid, You Say?" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2ykxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MhAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4563%2C4702173 by Frank Litsky, in The Milwaukee Sentinel American Weekly (Sunday, September 18, 1960), p. 7.
“I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.”
Richelle Mead (1976) American writer
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