Truth Quotes - Page 9

• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Two Sides, Literature

  Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28

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• The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Song, Heart, Novelists

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• People will always show their true selves in the end.

  Leona Lewis

  Life, Fake People, Real

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wise, Believe

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• Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

  Drake

  Life, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Say What's Real

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  All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

  Woody Allen

  Inspiring, Witty, Funny Inspirational

  Woody Allen (1998). “Deconstructing Harry”

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• Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Sacrifice, Ideas, Joy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 606), 1895.

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• Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

  Jasper Johns

  Artificial, Seems

  Richard Francis, Jasper Johns (1984). “Jasper Johns”, Abbeville Pr

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• Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

  Clement Greenberg

  Honesty, Heart, Artist

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.146, Beacon Press

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• The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

  Ala Bashir

  Art, Facts, Invitations

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• It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Stories, World, Moments

  "My Kid Could Paint That". Documentary, Family, Mystery, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Hell, Truthfulness, Colour

  Bernard Zurcher, Vincent van Gogh (1995). “Vincent Van Gogh: art, life, and letters”, Thunder Bay Pr

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• I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.

  Selima Hill

  Selfish, Naked, Steps

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• Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

  Billy Joel

  Art, Honesty, Form

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• True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

  Thomas Hobbes

  True And False, Speech, Attributes

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 4 (1651)

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• The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Sunshine, Light

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• Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

  Edgar Degas

  Needs, Ugly, Truth Is

  Malcolm R. Daniel, Edgar Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Bibliothèque nationale de France (1998). “Edgar Degas, Photographer”, p.29, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lying, Reality, May

  Rosemary Treble, Vincent van Gogh (1975). “Van Gogh and his art”

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• One handles truths like dynamite.

  Anais Nin

  Dynamite, Handle, Handle The Truth

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

  C. P. Scott

  Integrity, Media, Giving

  'Manchester Guardian' 5 May 1921

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• Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Train

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.27, Penguin

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• For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

  Doug Dawson

  Strong, Creativity, Color

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• What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

  Walter Lippmann

  Errors, Myth, Critical

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.

  Sidney Jourard

  Thinking, People, Mars

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