- Life
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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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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Nov 07, 2020
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020