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316 quotesThe art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Story and Story-Telling
Walter Benjamin
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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
Ignorance
Ernest Bevin
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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Wit
Ambrose Bierce
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It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
Wealth
Josh Billings
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Exaggeration
Josh Billings
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Surprises
Josh Billings
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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
Truth
Wayne Birmingham
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Truth
Otto Von Bismarck
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Sell cheap and tell the truth.
Sales
Rose Blumkin
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The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
Wealth
Humphrey Bogart
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Manners
Malcolm Bradbury
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Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Peace
Bertolt Brecht
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Habit
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.
Ecology
Louis Bromfield
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
Confession
Anita Brookner
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The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
Cynics and Cynicism
Dean Charles R. Brown
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Grief
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Truth never hurts the teller.
Truth
Robert Browning
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Praise
Jean De La Bruyere
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Jest
Jean De La Bruyere
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
Story and Story-Telling
Jean De La Bruyere
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
Catholicism
Patrick Buchanan
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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
Effort
Buddha
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Sorrow
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
Intuition
Michael Burke
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun