A Quote by Harry S Truman
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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But when we're helping children understand how people from different walks of life can coexist, prioritizing common ground too often obscures or erases uncommon experiences.
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind.
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.
I don't need to be too intense. I don't play my best golf when I'm super-intense.
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