Tend

Famous quotes containing the word tend:

“Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)

“Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)