
“Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.”
"Politics and Spirituality conference, Washington D.C. 2006"
Source: Masquerade
“Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.”
"Politics and Spirituality conference, Washington D.C. 2006"
“All who seek to enrich those who do not work should be destroyed.”
Quoted in "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination" - Page 405 - by Ben Kiernan - Social Science - 2007.
“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
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Variant: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it
Context: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”
Source: [Jarvey, Natalie, December 4, 2017, Morgan Freeman, Kerry Washington Celebrate "Oscars of Science'" at Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/morgan-freeman-kerry-washington-celebrate-oscars-science-at-breakthrough-prize-ceremony-1064160, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles, December 4, 2017]
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 619.
“Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.”
Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits
So be it; or, The chips are down
Gallimard
1952
174
Original: (fr) Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-même.