A Quote by Tacitus

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

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Falsehood Haste Itself Uncertainty

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects.

Leonardo da Vinci

Wall Street, in the main, hates uncertainty, which manifests itself in depressed share prices of companies whose prospects lack 'visibility.' But where the market can err is in confusing uncertainty with risk.

Whitney Tilson

The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty - whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty - and that makes them a little nervous as well.

Steve Easterbrook

Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.

Robert E. Murray

Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.

Mark Batterson

Falsehood always punishes itself.

Frank Auerbach

Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

Jeanette Winterson

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

Seneca the Younger

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

Thomas Jefferson

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.

Dennis Lindley

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Berthold Auerbach

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

Alexander Pope

But as there is a keeping back, and quietly waiting, and a keeping out of willing or running, and haste, the spirit arises purely and stilly in the heart, and gives perfect evidence and full testimony of itself; so that there needs to be no doubting nor questioning of its motion; for it shows forth itself with full assurance of its own will.

Francis Howgill

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