Truth Quote by John Donohue Download Open image ““In the post-modern academic world, truth is often alleged to be relative.”” — John Donohue ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Truth
“The reason why truth is so hard to be revealed is because there are so many current practices that would soon turn into a… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet” — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
“Then she said that truth was all relative. Truth often came down to what is the most believable version of events.” — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, there is no truth, only various levels of interpretation. Fact is a construct we provide to the public.” — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“Truth is an illusionary ideal, a structure with a foundation of opinion, garnished by selected facts, eroded over time and rebuilt new every generation.” — David Grant Urban Copy Share Image
“Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth.” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves, a mixture of worry, lost power,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. Therefore” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“People crave certainty. And control. We spend our lives erecting coping mechanisms, little games we play to preserve the illusion of safety.” — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“Of course, it’s not that I really work there. Dorian, like many other colleges, pays a horde of part-time teachers to do the dirty… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“I felt a tightness on the skin. A visceral type of cognition that I had experienced before. But this was stronger, more immediate: the… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“On good days I hope we were formed for a purpose, but there is also a deep throbbing, a grim Celtic warning that life… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“We began to circle each other, looking for a tsuki, a gap in concentration, that would permit an attack.” — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“When I started my studies years ago, I thought of myself as an academic with an interest in the martial arts. Then I met… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“I was sandwiched in between the Colonel and Hanrahan. I looked at the driver and nodded at the crowd in black shirts. “This the… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“The truly wise know that what we really need are those things that permit our true natures to emerge.” — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“The realization of what was happening meant that I had to shift mental gears. There is, after all, fighting. And then there is fighting.… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“But didn’t you see that last technique?” Baker pressed. “The blindfold?” He sounded incredulous, but the eyes were still watchful. I noticed the subtle… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“He looked off into the distance with narrowed eyes. Man of action, seeing things no one else does. “Let’s just say we had indications…”… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
“To train in the martial arts is like being apprenticed to frustration, to the burn of effort, and the unattainable criteria of perfection. There’s… — John Donohue Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image