Gilbert K. Chesterton Nine Quotations

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.