Joe Nichols Quotes

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be either good or evil.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

There's going to be people that try to sway you to do things that you shouldn't do.

The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.