A Quote by H. L. Mencken
One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.
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The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?
As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.
So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.
There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!
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