“ As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, "What is truth?". ”
- Richard Whately- Copy
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“ If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar. ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
- 905
“ I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. ”
- Mary Todd Lincoln- Copy
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“ I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. ”
- Henry Adams- Copy
- 742
“ When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action. ”
- Robert S. McNamara- Copy
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“ Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
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“ I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful. ”
- Hellmut Walters- Copy
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“ Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
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“ Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. ”
- Ben Hogan- Copy
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“ Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. ”
- Harold Nicolson- Copy
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“ Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing taking. ”
- Tim McMahon- Copy
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“ This report is obviously very significant. It finds probable cause to believe that the assassination could not have been undertaken without the knowledge of senior figures in Syrian intelligence. ”
- John Bolton- Copy
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“ In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. ”
- Daniel Boone- Copy
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“ Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. ”
- Morris West- Copy
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“ It is probable that a greater proportion of talent is destroyed, or rendered valueless, by riches than by poverty; and the rapid mutation of society, I think, demonstrates this to be the fact. ”
- Francis Wayland- Copy
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“ We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of "Creation.". ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable — tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination. ”
- John Kerry- Copy
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“ The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ”
- Marlene Dietrich- Copy
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“ Persistance is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite. ”
- Robert Half- Copy
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“ The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion. ”
- Chris Wedge- Copy
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