Truth Is Quotes - Page 36

• Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is.

  Bob Saget

  People, Arguing

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013

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• The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

  William Shawn

  Years, Facts, Accuracy

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• Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

  Jon Snow

  President, Bills, Clinton

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• A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Lying, Matter, Kind

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• The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

  Eugene Mirman

  Comedian, Stories, Interpretation

  "The Erudite Absurdist: Eugene Mirman". Interview with Austin Nelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2011.

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• The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.

  Brad Stine

  Hurt, Truth, Knows

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• A lot of people like to downgrade Morocco and Africa like its all jungles and lions and sh*t. The actual truth is a lot of stuff is going on out there.

  French Montana

  People, Morocco, Lions

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• The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Heart, Doubt, Filters

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• Truth is it's own witness.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Witness

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• To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pride, Bliss, Masters

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• It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Revenge, Real

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• The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.

  Adyashanti

  Eye, Turns, Behinds

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• All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Patterns, Whole, Untrue

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Five Ways to Forgiveness”, p.123, Library of America

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• Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Children, Swings, Views

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• Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

  Richard Rorty

  Believe

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• Truth is something that happens to an idea.

  William James

  Ideas, Happens

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• The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, School, Caring

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers

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• The truth is that climate alarmism has become the most expensive, and the most wasteful, project in the history of the world. It is junk economics built on junk science. It amounts to no more than hot air, yet it looks set to beggar our grandchildren.

  Roger Helmer

  Grandchildren, Air, Climate

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• The funny thing is a lot of people assume that my parents are the ones pushing me to make music. The truth is that I'm the one dragging them along on this crazy ride. They'd much rather have a normal life, but it doesn't look like that's in the cards.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Crazy, Funny Things, People

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• Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

  Bette Davis

  Home, Thinking, Work Out

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• How much truth can we bear? Our tolerance for carrying the truth is not very high. I mean, the slightest discomfort about truth and we run to our refuge of our jobs and our schools and our friends who keep supporting our blindness.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Running, Jobs, School

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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• I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under Eisenhower. Do people think America wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under Eisenhower in the '50s? Nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "We're taxing ourselves into oblivion." Yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. It's been purchased.

  David Simon

  Country, Thinking, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

  Adam Duritz

  Fighting, Winning, Heartbreaking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

  Wayne Coyne

  Play, Sweat, People

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Jobs, Thinking, Games

  "Gates Unlocked: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The "The African Americans" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. October 17, 2013.

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