Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Category: Honesty
Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. – Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education, 1943 Category: Honesty
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 26 October 1924 Category: Miscellaneous
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. – Mao Zedong Category: History
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teachers family. – Simon van der Meer Category: teacher
