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Paradox, depth, and silence

These great truth quotes open with the paradox that a great truth's opposite can be just as true, a theme that runs through much depth-focused reflection.

Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

Quotes by A. E. van Vogt

Opposite
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Nov 07, 2020

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Nov 07, 2020

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Nov 07, 2020

Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.

Quotes by Pope Benedict XVI

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.

Quotes by John Malkovich

Nov 07, 2020

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

Quotes by John Malkovich

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Nov 07, 2020

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

Quotes by Bernadette Peters

Others contrast small, clear truths with the great silence of larger ones, and admit there's real honesty even in half-serious claims about human folly.

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