With A Grain Of Salt Quotes

#1. History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ...

Phyllis McGinley

#2. We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Robert Collier

#3. Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.

Criss Jami

#4. I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.

Ronald D. Moore

#5. I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

Ken Wilber

#6. If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

Chris Daughtry

#7. I take New Years with a grain of salt and three aspirins.

Milton Berle

#8. I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

Jeff Tweedy

#9. What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

Gerald McRaney

#10. I took it all with a grain of salt.

Pat Patterson

#11. The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

Stefano Langone

#12. Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still ... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

Mickey Spillane

#13. I take everything with a grain of salt.

Hope Solo

#14. Unless you heard it yourself, take with a grain of salt what a person says another person said about you.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#15. When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

Seth Klarman

#16. I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Mike Colter

#17. It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.

Eva LaRue

#18. Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

Maxine

#19. The media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read.

Katy Perry

#20. You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Mark Wahlberg

#21. Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

John Legend

#22. You are reading the words of a complete schmuck, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. Wouldn't it be nice if all authors admitted what I just said? The world would surely be a lot less confusing if they did...

Mark B. Warring

#23. I too am a poet who has found some favour with the Muse. I too have written songs. I too have heard the shepherds call me bard. But I take it from them with a grain of salt: I have the feeling that I cannot yet compare with Varius or Cinna, but cackle like a goose among melodious swans.

Virgil

#24. Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

Khloe Kardashian

#25. I myself saw Yahoo become a $100 billion company and then become a $10 billion company, so you always have to look at valuations with a grain of salt and understand it is a point-in-time measure.

Brian Acton

#26. I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.

Gillian Jacobs

#27. I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

Kelly Olynyk

#28. A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.

Michael Dickinson

#29. The classification above is based on a 2011 presentation by MIT grad student David Hernandez for my cosmology class. Because such simplistic taxonomies are strictly impossible, they should be taken with a large grain of salt:

Max Tegmark

#30. Pluto's warm-up is a reminder that no matter where you are climate happens. It always has, it always will - with or without SUVs. And it should remind us to continue taking with an ever-increasing grain of salt these claims that your car acts as a weather machine.

Chris Horner

#31. Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.

Thomas Jefferson

#32. Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won't be close to enough.

Thomm Quackenbush

#33. Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

George Santayana

#34. When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

Curt Schilling

#35. I'm pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.

Maxwell

#36. The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

W. H. Auden

#37. A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Helen Rowland