- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth Quotes
Truth, examined from a few angles.
This set opens with the idea that a story's meaning ultimately depends on the relationship between reader, writer, and character, before turning to a pointed geopolitical observation about oil and foreign intervention. For more grounded reflections, see Heart.
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- Foreign Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully.
- Asserting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Error is always more busy than truth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.
- Nov 07, 2020