Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Quote by Herodotus
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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Herodotus Quotes
- In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
- Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
- He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
- Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
- It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
- It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
- The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
- Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
- The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
- All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Best Quotes
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- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.