Truth Is Quotes - Page 22

• It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

  Henry Miller

  Brother, Liars, Integrity

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• Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

  Robert Anthony

  Life, Motivational, Procrastination

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• The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Acceptance, Ideas, Competition

  Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

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• As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.169

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• Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.

  John Piper

  Lying, Fall, Broken

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• The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).

  David Bohm

  Truth, Science, Irrelevance

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.42, Routledge

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• Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a new humanity. Nowadays, in a special way, the world needs people capable of proclaiming and bearing witness to God who is love, and consequently the one light which in the end, illumines the darkness of the world and gives us strength to live and work

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, Giving, People

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• It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is not my fault. But he sobering truth is that if I step onto the path of self-destruction, I know I will never come back.

  Bill Jenkins

  Grief, Self, Alcohol

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• The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . .

  Robin Cook

  Country, War, Believe

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• Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

  Matthew Kelly

  Crush, Education, Spirit

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.94, BookBaby

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• For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Christian, Spiritual, Teaching

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• Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

  Akhenaton

  Friendship, Truth, Hatred

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• Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

  John Howard

  Political, Absolute Truth, Absolutes

  ABC Radio "AM" program, August 25, 1995.

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• Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

  Menander

  Evil, Faces, Facing The Truth

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• Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Integrity, Suffering, Done

  William Ellery Channing, William Henry Channing (1860). “Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...”, p.424

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• The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

  Andre Dubus

  Joy, Sorrow, Life Is

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• The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.

  Arthur Phillips

  Art, Common, Form

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• The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.

  Sam Harris

  Death, Happens, Knows

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.208, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

  Christopher Morley

  Truth, Prejudice, Facts

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing.  I want it all to come out.  The good, the bad, the ugly.

  Jayson Blair

  Lying, Done, Ugly

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• The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.

  Charles Fillmore

  Wall, Inspiration, Heart

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• Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

  Robert Anthony

  Happiness, Always Trying, Denial

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.174, Morgan James Publishing

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• The spirit of God speaking to the spirit of man has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact even with heavenly beings. Through the Holy Ghost, the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Men, Understanding, Woven

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• Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

  Peter Atkins

  Majority Vote, Majority, Vote

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• I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

  Hugh Grant

  Book, Writing, Creativity

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