Different Faces Quotes - Page 2

• I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.

  Cornelia Funke

  Girl, Book, Men

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• He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now.

  Dan Brown

  Country, Prayer, Men

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• What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

  Learned Hand

  Government, Political, Liberty

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Lying, Waiting

  James Russell Lowell (1886). “Democracy, and Other Addresses”

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• Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Names, Mind, Essentials

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• Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Real, Mirrors, Self

  Shashi Deshpande (1989). “That Long Silence”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.

  Ogden Nash

  Wedding, Husband, Different

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• ..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

  Lian Hearn

  Men, Knowing, Praying

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Brilliance of the Moon: Tales of the Otori”, p.316, Pan Macmillan

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• You have to wear a different face when you're interacting with the larger culture. And you can be more of yourself at home or in the local market or in the local church speaking your own language. That was my sense growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in San Jose.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Growing Up, Home, Church

  "'The Refugees' Author Says We Should All Know What It Is To Be An Outsider". Interview with Ari Shapiro, kccu.org. February 10, 2017.

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