- 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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- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
- False
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that science will or should ever admit. We believers mean something different by the word: something that puts faith permanently in the category of irreproducible results.
- Conveniently
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020