- 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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- Numbers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.
- Alike
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- Nov 07, 2020
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.
- Nov 07, 2020
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from my own life - is that writing the truth often requires invention and imagination.
- Nov 07, 2020
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth of the matter is coming up with a title is one of the most challenging things we do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020