Chief Quotes

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. (Alfred Adler)
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. View quote
Henry L. Stimson
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. View quote
James A. Garfield
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do the best we can. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. View quote
Charles Cooley
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust. (Geronimo)
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. View quote
Lewis Mumford
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. View quote
Dan Quayle
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. View quote
Walter Scott
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. View quote
Larry Wall
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. View quote
Gerald Ford
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. View quote
John F. Kennedy
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. View quote
Rollo May
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States. View quote
James K. Polk