Truth Quotes - Page 20

• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.

  Heinz Kohut

  Believe, Profound, Psychology

  Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

  Vivian Gornick

  Life, Believe, Writing

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• Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

  J. D. Greear

  Soul, Able, Captivating

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Struggle, Games, Effort

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• Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Harm, Investigation, Ought

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• I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

  Lotte Reiniger

  Funny, Humorous, Believe

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• I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

  Raoul Wallenberg

  Encounters, Example, International Relations

  Raoul Wallenberg (1995). “Letters and Dispatches, 1924-1944”, p.48, Arcade Publishing

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• The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

  Jagadish Chandra Bose

  Law, Words Of Wisdom, Mind

  "Oriental Philosophy". Book by Ted Gambordella, 2008.

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• We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it

  Al-Kindi

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Islamic

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• We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

  Alfred Wegener

  Judging, Judgement, Answers

  Alfred Wegener (1966). “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.

  Mahbub ul Haq

  Life, Powerful, Real

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• Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Past, Trying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3526, Delphi Classics

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• Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

  Richard Whately

  Taken, Should, Applause

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.87

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• Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

  George Eliot

  Flavour, Rough, Bites

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3961, Delphi Classics

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• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspiration, Independent, Humble

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

  Ken Kesey

  Lady Macbeth, Sometimes, Fit

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.247, Penguin

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• Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

  Daniel Webster

  Lying, Liars, 4th Of July

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.487

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• My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uniforms, Convinced

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.35, A&C Black

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Lying, Creativity

  The Arts, May 1923

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• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Science, Errors

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species'

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• Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Sorry, Knowing Who You Are, People

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• Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Angel, Men, Bread

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• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Imitation, Copies

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