Christopher Morley Quotes

Every time you leave your house, you've got to be prepared for what might happen.

You would not get out of bed in the morning if you were constantly worrying about the possibility of something happening to you on your way to work. But it is still something to pay attention to, I think.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.