John Jay Chapman quote: "A thing is not the truth till it is so strongly believed in, that the believer is convinced that its existence does not depend upon him"

Try to raise a voice that shall be heard from here to Albany and watch what it is that comes forward...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing vir...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he ha...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness ...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something el...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportio...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, -- that reform consists in taking a bone...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudic...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at th...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your ...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dr...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social lif...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

All progress is experimental.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms t...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a ...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to ...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Too much agreement kills the chat.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a ...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desidera...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We ...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a re...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone fr...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in ...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the pri...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness ...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio b...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

The radicals are really always saying the same thing. They do not change; everybody else changes. Th...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

First, they'd have to survive the chipping process. Then they'd have to survive the heat of those bi...
JOHN CHAPMAN

It's not a trivial process.
JOHN CHAPMAN

At this point, we feel very confident that this was not shipping damage. It's obvious that no crack ...
JOHN CHAPMAN

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
JOHN JAY

The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
JOHN JAY

Those who own the country ought to govern it.
JOHN JAY

In all my years of coaching, I've never had a team with just one free throw. For us to be successful...
JOHN JAY

They demonstrated why they are two of the elite guards in the country.
JOHN JAY

What Jordan does like any great point guard is the ability to have vision and control from sideline ...
JOHN JAY

The issue that has evolved recently is, from a perimeter standpoint ... the attack of the teams agai...
JOHN JAY

I was embarrassed after the Cal game. I'm not happy how the score ended up tonight, but it's differe...
JOHN JAY

Ryan Appleby just blew us up in the second half.
JOHN JAY

I was pretty comfortable with how those guys were defending, and I thought we had pretty good ball m...
JOHN JAY

We played well enough to win this game. As a team we have a significant ceiling to shoot for. There ...
JOHN JAY

I've never seen them shoot that well. They shot us right out of the fight.
JOHN JAY

When Nick is comfortable he is very effective. When he is uncomfortable he's unpredictable. At this ...
JOHN JAY

It's not the way it's supposed to be drawn up with two of the four seniors who have had an impact on...
JOHN JAY

Given what we've been through, if there was ever a group of guys who earned it, deserved it, it's ou...
JOHN JAY

He has reaffirmed his commitment. There are some things Jason and I needed to address. Jason is back...
JOHN JAY

It was a good effort and we moved the ball better than we have in a while, and so it's fun to get ba...
JOHN JAY

I just know this; it's been a long three weeks. You acquire some energy after a win. They will be an...
JOHN JAY

Wesley did a great job.
JOHN JAY

[Despite the setback of his toe injury, Lucas continues to improve this year.] He keeps breaking b...
JOHN JAY

Shoot, he plays every position on the court. He's just a guy who hurts you in whatever position he p...
JOHN JAY

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the ...
JOHN JAY HOOKER

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mist...
JOHN (JAY) MCCLOY

I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashvi...
JOHN JAY HOOKER

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legis...
JOHN JAY HOOKER

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mist...
JOHN (JAY) MCCLOY

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
JOHN JAY HOOKER

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and i...
JOHN JAY HOOKER

I have given up on reality and am now simply searching for a good fantasy.
JOHN JAY SIMMONS

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises a...
DUANE CHAPMAN

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you somethi...
TRACY CHAPMAN

As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you&...
DUANE CHAPMAN

When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the &#...
DUANE CHAPMAN

If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she...
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

I'm a designer, not a businesswoman.
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

I think people desperately want to feel love.
GARY CHAPMAN

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person f...
GARY CHAPMAN

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to self...
GARY CHAPMAN

I was a celebrity bodyguard. I didn't keep the best hours or choose the best food when I was on ...
GRIZZ CHAPMAN

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your gener...
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you...
JOYCE CHAPMAN

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you d...
JOYCE CHAPMAN

They're only truly great who are truly good.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in ...
CHAPMAN COHEN

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate ...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Promise is most given when the least is said.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Pure innovation is more gross than error.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Danger, the spur of all great minds.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

I'm a hopeful cynic.
TRACY CHAPMAN

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felic...
ROBERT CHAPMAN

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
CHAPMAN COHEN

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile swells a little longer, That'...
ARTHUR CHAPMAN

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Is feather'd ...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature ma...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Enough is as good as a feast.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give ...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

His deeds inimitable, like the Sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor print...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

A nail in the wound.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of fel...
ROBERT CHAPMAN

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme l...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few y...
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, ...
DUANE CHAPMAN

There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel l...
TRACY CHAPMAN

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They th...
CHAPMAN COHEN

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my ...
DUANE CHAPMAN

The hope is we won't have to do any layoffs, and we'll be fully operational through July 1.
BILL CHAPMAN

We want to become a little more full service.
BILL CHAPMAN

Right now, everything is looking up for the Santa Fe Recovery Center.
BILL CHAPMAN

She had so much love. She was such a gracious lady.
BILL CHAPMAN

Simply put, the numbers are the numbers.
BILL CHAPMAN

There's enough humidity in the crop that I don't think it would have caused any damage.
BILL CHAPMAN

I have a hard time understanding why the town and the fire department are involved,
BILL CHAPMAN

We were charged $150 for putting a piece of tissue paper in a carton.
BILL CHAPMAN

It's a very generous award by New Hampshire standards.
BILL CHAPMAN

The Legislature has explicitly turned its back on determining the cost of adequacy.
BILL CHAPMAN

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a...
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
DUANE CHAPMAN

I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although...
TRACY CHAPMAN

Most of the galleries are glorified frame shops; I wanted this to be a true gallery. I wanted it to ...
ANA CHAPMAN

To have artists encouraging other artists, it works and it really helps. There is such a need for th...
ANA CHAPMAN

When he saw this place, he started crying and said this is exactly what he needed. He hasn't painted...
ANA CHAPMAN

When you are depressed, you shouldn't listen to sad music, watch sad movies nor paint sad or negativ...
ANA CHAPMAN

I started working with artists in Ohio, and we started a thing called Art Night where people would b...
ANA CHAPMAN

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
ARTHUR CHAPMAN

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listen...
TRACY CHAPMAN

Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that ...
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally an...
TRACY CHAPMAN

I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i...
TRACY CHAPMAN

I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days ...
GRIZZ CHAPMAN

Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a foo...
GRIZZ CHAPMAN

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given th...
DUANE CHAPMAN

Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. B...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest...
GARY CHAPMAN

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

I love imagining being someone else in another time.
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

I'm a hopeful cynic.
TRACY CHAPMAN

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do yo...
DUANE CHAPMAN

She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seem...
VANNETTA CHAPMAN

Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly...
TRACY CHAPMAN

Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry ...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Words writ in waters.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by some trifling performance. A carpet ...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

To have a smattering knowledge of anything.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

As good as a play.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I...
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!...
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths, In t...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problems of their lives never get presented in terms ...
ROBERT CHAPMAN

Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To som...
GEORGE CHAPMAN

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs...
TRACY CHAPMAN

He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

We planned to give away Mike's poster about two weeks ago, and it's amazing how it worked out. We're...
DAN CHAPMAN

He plots, he plans, he works in secret,
ROBERT CHAPMAN

We're going to be a 'big brother' for Texans with limited means. We're standing by to negotiate thei...
RANDY CHAPMAN

I mentioned that I received a scholarship to Episcopalian school, and the model for the school was &...
TRACY CHAPMAN

I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were v...
TRACY CHAPMAN

It'd be easier for me if the board voted tonight, ... since I wouldn't have to vote. But I think it'...
RICHARD CHAPMAN

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a p...
DUANE CHAPMAN

Altitude won't determine the outcome of the game, but it might have small effects here and there.
ROBERT CHAPMAN

You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.
DUANE CHAPMAN

I think I'm a lot more patient. I think I was more a drill sergeant in the early years.
TONY CHAPMAN

I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitch...
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

Keep your blood pressure under control and pay attention to your urine. If it's foamy, that'...
GRIZZ CHAPMAN

There is a responsible with being an artist. There is a responsible of the impact you leave on peopl...
AARON CHAPMAN

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you ...
DUANE CHAPMAN

Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.
GEORGE CHAPMAN

A thing is not the truth till it is so strongly believed in, that the believer is convinced that its existence does not depend upon him

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John Jay Chapman

A thing is not the truth till it is so strongly believed in, that the believer is convinced that its existence does not depend upon him

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