Led Quotes

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. (Euripides)
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. View quote
Karl Kraus
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. View quote
George Washington
An army of sheep, led by a lion, is better than an army of lions, led by a sheep. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. View quote
Richard Owen
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. (Louis Pasteur)
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. View quote
Elihu Root
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
One is led to conclude that economics as a scientific discipline is still somewhat hanging in the air. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. View quote
George Eliot
I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. View quote
Angelina Jolie
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine. (Glenn Beck)
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts. View quote
Douglas Coupland
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. View quote
Hugo Black
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