John Henry Newman Quotes
When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.
John Henry Newman, 1801-1890, English Roman Catholic Cardinal, Sermon, Oxford, Epiphany, 1839
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His recipe for mediating disputes.
The quotation was made in the context of the Arab Israeli conflict, but the principle is general.
Shlomo ben Yitzchak
He was referring to the 2016 Presidential Campaign Politifact showed that Hillary Clinton’s facts were not valid and truthful 25 percent of the time and Donald Trump’s were false more than 70 percent of the time. Never before have there been so many falsehoods exchanged in a Presidential Campaign.
John Henry Newman was an English theologian and poet, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s, and was canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church in 2019.