CHARACTER
“There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.” (Josh Billings)
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slow down and REFLECT
on the MEANING and the MESSAGE of today’s quotation
“There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.” (Josh Billings)
In Your Own Words…
In your own words, what is the central message of the above quote by the 19th century American humorist and lecturer Josh Billings (pen name for Henry Wheeler Shaw)?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
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Getting Personal
From your own personal experience or observation, is there anyone you are aware of who illustrates the type of character referred to in today’s quote? If so, who?
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” (John Stuart Mill)
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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS
Besides being truthful yourself in today’s world of often misleading advertising and political propaganda, skillfully questioning and discerning the truthfulness of public statements has become a necessary character trait for being able to live a successful life.
“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.” (William Shenstone)
“Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.” (Curtis Jackson)
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. “ (Octavia Butler)
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Remind you of anyone?
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Quotation AI Assistant
Interested in seeing what artificial intelligence (ai) has to say about the meaning of today’s quotation? Compare it to your own interpretation. You may be fascinated, or even possibly humbled.
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