Truth Quotes - Page 19

• If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Love, Obnoxious, Possession

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2016

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• Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

  Harold Klemp

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.

  Heinz Kohut

  Believe, Profound, Psychology

  Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

  Ivy Lee

  Inspirational, Change, People

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• I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Inspirational, Believe, Learning

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• I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

  Diane di Prima

  Thinking, Two, Poetry

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• A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

  Vivian Gornick

  Life, Believe, Writing

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• Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.

  James Carville

  Smart, Believe, Thinking

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• If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

  Jonathan Goforth

  Religious, Idols, Religion

  Jonathan Goforth (0101). “"By my Spirit"”, p.114, Solid Christian Books

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• Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Sports, Player

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• I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

  Lotte Reiniger

  Funny, Humorous, Believe

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• Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

  Jerry Bridges

  Inspirational, Trust, Bible

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• This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2010

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• As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Love, Success, Education

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• Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Life, Education, Learning

  "The Evolution of India".

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• Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.

  J. D. Greear

  Soul, Able, Captivating

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

  Lise Meitner

  Acceptance, Science, Reality

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• We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

  Alfred Wegener

  Judging, Judgement, Answers

  Alfred Wegener (1966). “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cheating

  "Pitino Sorry for 'Indiscretion,' Gets to Keep His Job" by Mark Mooney, Michael James, abcnews.go.com. August 12, 2009.

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• In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Struggle, Games, Effort

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• If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Harm, Investigation, Ought

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• Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  God, Wisdom, Prayer

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• I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

  Raoul Wallenberg

  Encounters, Example, International Relations

  Raoul Wallenberg (1995). “Letters and Dispatches, 1924-1944”, p.48, Arcade Publishing

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• The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

  Jagadish Chandra Bose

  Law, Words Of Wisdom, Mind

  "Oriental Philosophy". Book by Ted Gambordella, 2008.

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• They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

  Oscar Gamble

  Inspirational, Sports, Baseball

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