![I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-can-assure-the-conspiracy-theorists-who-have-very-effectively-savaged-gerald.jpg)
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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
objectivity jam traffic
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought. Chogyam Trungpa
objectivity literature littles
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. Dave Barry
objectivity literature moral
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. Charles Baudelaire
objectivity maintenance attention
Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker. Charlie Munger
objectivity focus insightful
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
objectivity chess firsts
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. Alexander Alekhine
objectivity transparency
Transparency is the new objectivity David Weinberger
objectivity tests failing
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do). Stephen Jay Gould
objectivity people subjectivity
It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love. Joe Pantoliano
mistress compromise truth-is
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises. Aiden Wilson Tozer
mistress her-beauty may
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? William Shakespeare
mistress sovereign opinion
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
mistress expensive
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute. Edith Wharton
mistress masters
I will have but one mistress and no master Elizabeth I
mistress court frailty
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you. Ben Jonson
mistress language currents
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
mistress calm
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. Jane Austen
mistress would-be facts
Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon. Barry Goldwater