Herbert Hoover Quotes

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secret deceit; who are the same in act as they are in desire; who conceal no thought, no tendencies of thought, from their own conscience; who are faithful and sincere witnesses, before the tribunal of their own judgments, of all that passes within their mind. Such as these shall see God.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

Ignoring your conscience is the first violation of Truth.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.

I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

The truth is in the details.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations. He does not confuse truth with plausibility, he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable. The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy.

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.