Bob Dole Quotes

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

Words become deeds and then meet needs.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Clearness is so often one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Repetition often becomes fact.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are made up truths.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.