Truths Quotes

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Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when itâ€™s dark — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… — Zadie Smith
Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that… — Neil Gaiman
He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is… — Kurt Vonnegut
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. — Alexander Pushkin
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that… — H. L. Mencken
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and… — John Dewey
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and… — Carl Jung
If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump… — Deb Caletti
Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and… — Dean Koontz
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about… — Mortimer Adler
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn… — Bernhard Schlink
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master… — Henry Miller
Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical… — Lauren Slater
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its… — Henry Ward Beecher
Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter… — Gordon B. Hinckley
No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul… — J M Coetzee
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. — Douglas Adams

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