WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:41:43 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg forthright – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Lavater, Johann Kaspar -- Aphorisms on Man, 2nd ed. (1789) https://wist.info/lavater-johann-kaspar/33183/ https://wist.info/lavater-johann-kaspar/33183/#respond Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:05:18 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33183 He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice, and never ceases nibbling.


Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Swiss poet, theologian, physiognomist.
Aphorisms on Man, 2nd ed. (1789) ]]> https://wist.info/lavater-johann-kaspar/33183/feed/ 0 33183 Brandeis, Louis -- New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262 (1932) [dissent] https://wist.info/brandeis-louis/27388/ https://wist.info/brandeis-louis/27388/#respond Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:26:42 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=27388 If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.


Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) American lawyer, activist, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262 (1932) [dissent] ]]> https://wist.info/brandeis-louis/27388/feed/ 0 27388 Peguy, Charles -- “Basic Verities: The Honest People,” Basic Verities: Prose and Poetry [tr. A and J. Green (1943)] https://wist.info/peguy-charles/26710/ https://wist.info/peguy-charles/26710/#respond Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:35:55 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=26710 He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.


Charles Péguy (1873-1914) French poet, essayist, editor
“Basic Verities: The Honest People,” Basic Verities: Prose and Poetry [tr. A and J. Green (1943)] ]]> https://wist.info/peguy-charles/26710/feed/ 0 26710