Truths Quotes

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We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those… — Douglas Kennedy
He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a morning workout. The… — John L. Parker Jr.
It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail… — Ray Bradbury
Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges. — Umberto Eco
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to… — Robert Anton Wilson
Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies… — Jane Yolen
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top… — Charles Bukowski
There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing… — David Foster Wallace
You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special… — Ellen Hopkins
If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did. — Mira Grant
The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact,… — Freeman Dyson
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've… — Sergei Lukyanenko
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, CortÃ©s'll lay… — David Mitchell
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes… — Tim O'Brien
It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed. — John Stuart Mill
If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better… — C.S. Lewis
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the… — Irvine Welsh

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