Quote

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

Bill Vaughan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Find
Book
Thing
Believe
Read
Experience
Another
Truth

More quotes by Bill Vaughan

Image
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Freedom is knowing who you really are.
Bill Vaughan
Image
How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
Bill Vaughan
Image
I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
Bill Vaughan
Image
What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Our banking system grew byaccident and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
Bill Vaughan
Image
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
Bill Vaughan
Image
My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.
Bill Vaughan
Image
The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
Bill Vaughan
Image
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
Bill Vaughan
Image
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan