#nearest

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. ↗

— George Bancroft

#common mind #criterion #decision #faculty #mind

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#assisting #certain #come #could #devil

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France. ↗

— John Dyer

#content #cornwall #discovered #explore #france

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. ↗

— George Carlin

#bathroom #closest #death #dinner #dinner party

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#clearer #duty #lies #nearest #second

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

#alone #avidity #destructive #directly #friends

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#comes #enough #his #insight #limitations

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#car #excited #get #go #hawk

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#death #nearest #parents #store #taking

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#away #bike #clean #clean up #early