people-much-long-truth-others-newspaper-headlines-occasion-good-deal-world

What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis.

Richard E. Byrd
0/5 (0)

Richard E. Byrd's Popular Quotes

I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of…

- Richard E. Byrd

Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.

- Richard E. Byrd

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

- Richard E. Byrd

Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

- Richard E. Byrd

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.

- Richard E. Byrd

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Richard E. Byrd

Progress grows out of motion.

- Richard E. Byrd

No woman has ever stepped on Little America - and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

- Richard E. Byrd

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

- Richard E. Byrd
0 Comments

Login to join the discussion