Top 1200 Historical Truth Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional.

I think I was in the most historical and golden era of track and field.

Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.

I love Delhi for its historical value and the variety of food it offers.

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Being a part of the Women of Honor championship tournament is historical.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.

Political history is not the only way to approach historical figures.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We need to cross-examine them, recognizing and accepting the inconsistencies and gaps in those that make us proud and happy as well as those that cause us pain.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

Juventus is an historical club, and many great players have played there.

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Though I enjoy playing historical characters, it is very taxing.

There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities.

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.