Equally True Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
— George D. Prentice
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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is…
— Auguste Comte
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For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
— James T. Farrell
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We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy…
— Ivor Novello
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to…
— J I Packer
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It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.
— Lawrence Summers
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A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will…
— John Angell James
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There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back…
— Chad Harbach
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Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint.…
— Stanley Morison
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Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.
— Hermann Hesse
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When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that…
— C.S. Lewis
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Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it. It is also…
— Stephen Fry
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All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to…
— Ravi Zacharias
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While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen…
— Fran Lebowitz
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And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do…
— Paul Hawken
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The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral…
— Ronald Fisher
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