Truth Is Quotes - Page 38

• The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

  Pat Tillman

  Exercise, Today, Public Relations

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• Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.

  Rajneesh

  Silence, Found, Noisy

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• This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Simple, Talking, Essence

  "An oft-repeated 'truth'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Hurt, Jobs, School

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• Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

  A. H. Almaas

  Commitment, Mind, Doe

  A.H. Almaas (1998). “Essence With the Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization”, p.174, Weiser Books

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• Truth is above all, but higher still is true living.

  Kirpal Singh

  Higher, Stills

  Kirpal Singh (1988). “The teachings of Kirpal Singh”

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• The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom of religion, of association, of disassociation, and believe they should be treated with respect. I wouldn't dream of drumming them out of the military, firing them for their faith, tearing up their relationships, or taking their children away from them. The favor, alas, is not returned.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Christian, Dream, Children

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• For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Soul, Needs

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.69, OUP Oxford

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• The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this has happened. There were a significant number of people who didn`t want Jewish refugees before World War II, or even during World War II.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  War, Numbers, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

  Elaine Stritch

  Night, World, Hardest

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• The truth is the music is really an incredible personal part of the movie. When I was drawing the storyboards for Watchmen, I had just gone to my iPod and was grabbing music. It took me about two weeks to really put my playlist together. But once I had it, I kinda just put my headsets on and drew for five months. But that music's the music that's in the movie.

  Zack Snyder

  Two, Drawing, Ipods

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The truth is in the present moment.

  Dani Shapiro

  Moments, Present Moment

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

  Al Gore

  Challenges, Humanity, Climate

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore. But the most important truth is that we are capable of stopping climate change before the worst of its consequences are locked in. The solutions exist - all we need is the will to do something about it.

  Al Gore

  Important, Climate, Needs

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.

  Christiane Northrup

  Fall, Believe, Thinking

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• Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

  Jon Weisman

  Fiction, Sometimes, Stranger

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've even had people tell me that I must not be a Christian because I think climate change is real. But you know, there's nothing in the Bible that says that. The sad truth is that our thought leaders - many of them in the conservative media and politics - are the ones telling us this isn't real, and we are believing them.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Real, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

  Eliza Griswold

  Poverty, Injustice, Terrorism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all the other useful possibilities a day offers. I make obeisance to the story, its characters, and the muse with burnt offerings.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Character, Wrestling, Offering

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

  Ann Goldstein

  Italian, People, Sound

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don't look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, "yep that's really what I want to look like!"

  Coco Rocha

  Dad, Thinking, Being Real

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei. The misperception arose because when the peace agreement was signed in 2005, Abyei accounted for a quarter of Sudan's oil production. Since then, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague defined major oil fields to lie outside Abyei. They're in the north now, not even up for grabs, and they account for one percent of the oil in Sudan. The idea that it's "oil-rich Abyei" is out of date.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Lying, Agreement, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.

  Randall Mann

  Men, Noise, Uniforms

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.

  T.C. Boyle

  Art, Fiction, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

  Chris Abani

  Holocaust, Historical, Ordinary

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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