A Quote by C. S. Lewis

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis
British - Writer
November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

A. C. Benson

No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

C. S. Lewis

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Colin Mochrie

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

H. L. Mencken

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

Douglas Adams

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Peter Lynch

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.

Vicki Myron

You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.

Jack Nicholson

I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

William Feather

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy