Top 1200 Simple Truths Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

The moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it histruth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced a falsehood.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.

Fox is Trump's safe space. It's where he's not going to be humiliated, where he's not going to hear uncomfortable truths.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders influence the authenticity of their films.

There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.

I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts.

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.