- Me
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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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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saying I took my clean water for granted is an overstatement. To tell you the truth, I didn't even think about it.
- Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that no woman has to defend her body, and she should just live her truth. It should never be about the number size of her pants, and it should be about what you're doing in the world. What does her brain look like and not her hip size.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been working in north Indian villages, so I know the truth. Compared to the south Indian states, north India is less developed, and there's little awareness on menstrual hygiene.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, I've got a naturally outgoing nature, and I still have a great love for experimentation.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
- Nov 07, 2020
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020