Truth Is Quotes - Page 40

• For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Soul, Needs

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.69, OUP Oxford

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• The truth is in the present moment.

  Dani Shapiro

  Moments, Present Moment

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

  Al Gore

  Challenges, Humanity, Climate

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.

  Christiane Northrup

  Fall, Believe, Thinking

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• Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

  Jon Weisman

  Fiction, Sometimes, Stranger

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

  Eliza Griswold

  Poverty, Injustice, Terrorism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all the other useful possibilities a day offers. I make obeisance to the story, its characters, and the muse with burnt offerings.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Character, Wrestling, Offering

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don't look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, "yep that's really what I want to look like!"

  Coco Rocha

  Dad, Thinking, Being Real

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei. The misperception arose because when the peace agreement was signed in 2005, Abyei accounted for a quarter of Sudan's oil production. Since then, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague defined major oil fields to lie outside Abyei. They're in the north now, not even up for grabs, and they account for one percent of the oil in Sudan. The idea that it's "oil-rich Abyei" is out of date.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Lying, Agreement, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they're not going to be cute in the same as kids are. And they shouldn't have to be cute to deserve and merit our attention and support.

  John Donvan

  Cute, Kids, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes.

  Denise Duhamel

  Writing, Mean, Forever

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.

  Kevin Keck

  Character, Emotional, Narrative Structure

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My brother is severely autistic, so when I was a kid I spent a lot of time as a teenager in camps and programs for autistic kids. When I went to McGill as an undergraduate, I figured I'd be a therapist working with these kids. The truth is, and I knew this even back then, I'm just not good at this. I'm too empathic to do this sort of thing.

  Paul Bloom

  Brother, Teenager, Kids

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.

  Elia Suleiman

  Thinking, Moral, Injustice

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• Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.

  Patricia Arquette

  Law, Skills, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

  Josh Earnest

  Laughter, Play, Cities

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• But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

  Pete Docter

  Hats, Film, Expecting

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• The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smart, Dope, Unattractive

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

  Adam McKay

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Gross Prophets". Interview with Brett Martin, www.gq.com. July 12, 2010.

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• It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

  Bassem Youssef

  Running, Eye, Egypt

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

  Michael Buble

  Successful, Want, Springsteen

  "Michael Buble On Fishing, Sinatra And Auto-Tune". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 28, 2013.

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• It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.

  Frank Luntz

  Simple, Principles, Matter

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• Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

  Leo Errera

  Truth, Curves, Spirit

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• Ours is a society that has falsely assumed that contribution must mean giving to some specific cause rather than simply giving our best selves.  Thus, too many people don't recognize the fact that simply being who they are is contributing significantly to the world.  What if simply living your truth, being your best, and fully expressing your strengths, talents, and abilities at whatever you do were sufficient to contribute to the world?  I say it is, and we must not overlook the fact that being our best ultimately inspires others and can and does indeed make an impact.

  Brendon Burchard

  Mean, Impact, Self

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