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9f1fd7d I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane. literature teaching truth Mary Rose O'Reilley
3b637e7 When we characterize talk as hot air, we mean that what comes out of the speaker's mouth is only that. It is mere vapor. His speech is empty, without substance or content. His use of language, accordingly, does not contribute to the purpose it purports to serve. No more information is communicated than if the speaker had merely exhaled. There are similarities between hot air and excrement, incidentally, which make hot air seem an especially suitable equivalent for bullshit. Just as hot air is speech that has been emptied of all informative content, so excrement is matter from which everything nutritive has been removed. Excrement may be regarded as the corpse of nourishment, what remains when the vital elements in food have been exhausted. [...] In any event, it cannot serve the purposes of sustenance, any more than hot air can serve those of communication. critical-examination critical-thinking depiction logic marketing philosophy reality speech truth Harry G. Frankfurt
cc4ff34 Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies. lies truth Matthew Woodring Stover
268375f Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together. creativity idea ideas implement make meet occur opportunity quality truth unique Robin Hobb
59846d7 As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation. duties duty emancipation end freedom obligation outcome reality release responsibilities responsibility sever ties truth Robin Hobb
ac7ab90 Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may marshal strong indictments against them, but their counter-cries, lacking though they be in formal logic, have burning truths within them which you may not wholly ignore, O Southern Gentlemen! righteous-anger truth W.E.B. Du Bois
5d3bdc4 I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconsciousness knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times, it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than joining the bodies. outlander trust truth Diana Gabaldon
f7b8cb0 Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
4bcc4c5 I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
da195e2 [H]aving a money value was no substitute for love. love truth Margaret Atwood
630ecb9 We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer. potential potentialities truth Richard Ford
5196c1d The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was well-nigh impossible to face; he did not want to go anywhere near it, least of all, sit in its light, facing it. truth Malcolm Lowry
b216fe7 The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that'll save your ass. lies truth James Patterson
8a1dd62 Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale. boredom truth Tom Hodgkinson
222e4e2 I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame. core-truth healing healing-shame healing-the-past sexual-abuse-healing soul soul-searching truth Maureen Brady
d92c024 Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth. christianity enlightenment rational reason sin total-depravity truth James K.A. Smith
241e2f7 She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work. truth writers Jeanette Winterson
4f4ba7c The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
23c6874 Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking facade. health science truth Eric Schlosser
7761f37 ... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the new government owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, even after slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and their descendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines. satire truth Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
dc4d9f2 La verite a demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entiere. honest stefan-zweig truth verite Stefan Zweig
2135848 She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for diversity? truth Thomas Pynchon
f9a3051 Do you believe that it is impossible for the Holy God to love you and even delight in you? If so, you are believing Satan's lie that God loves you because of what you do. The truth is that he loves you because he is the God who loves, and the sacrifice of Jesus proves it. The cross of Christ expresses God's delight in all who believe, and if you believe that Jesus is the risen Lord, he delights in and loves you. truth Edward T. Welch
bfa61db Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
bfa2a3f Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the steppingstones to truth. truth Jules Verne
562c833 Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand what he meant. I did not feel I had to justify anything... I did not want to paint in order to justify anything, I wanted to paint because I wanted to paint. I wanted to paint the same way my father wanted to travel and work for the Rebbe. My father worked for Torah. I worked for - what? How could I explain it? For beauty? No. Many of the pictures I painted were not beautiful. For what, then? For a truth I did not know how to put into words. For truth I could only bring to life by means of color and line and texture and form. judaism religion social-pressure truth Chaim Potok
59641c3 When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can't be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned lessons-in-life lessons-learned truth truth-of-life Cecelia Ahern
b9214eb I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
e48ce57 No tenemos derecho a comparar el valor de una vida humana con otra. inspirational-attitude truth Elizabeth Gaskell
05a6c3a I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost. editha george mgg truth william-dean-howells William Dean Howells
1bb76be The best lies stay close to the truth. fairytales liar lies truth truth-and-lies young-adult young-adult-fantasy Cornelia Funke
e6a57a9 Cand actionam, chiar cu cele mai bune intentii, cand ne amestecam in cursul lumii, riscam de fiecare data sa provocam un alt dezastru care s-ar putea sa nu fie direct infaptuit de noi, dar care n-ar fi posibil fara interventia noastra. Unele dintre cele mai rele nedreptati au fost provocate de oamenii care au incercat la un moment dat sa schimbe lucrurile. people soul truth Gregory David Roberts
6ab0705 It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through. quiet silence truth virtues Donna VanLiere
af323b1 But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth? lie truth Julie Orringer
6e49eac Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
6e9ca0c Truth is elusive, subtle, manysided. You know, Priscilla, there's an old Hindu story about Truth. It seems a brash young warrior sought the hand of a beautiful princess. Her father, the king, thought he was a bit too cocksure and callow. He decreed that the warrior could only marry the princess after he had found Truth. So the warrior set out into the world on a quest for Truth. He went to temples and monasteries, to mountaintops where sages meditated, to remote forests where ascetics scourged themselves, but nowhere could he find Truth. Despairing one day and seeking shelter from a thunderstorm, he took refuge in a musty cave. There was an old crone there, a hag with matted hair and warts on her face, the skin hanging loose from her bony limbs, her teeth yellow and rotting, her breath malodorous. But as he spoke to her, with each question she answered, he realized he had come to the end of his journey: she was Truth. They spoke all night, and when the storm cleared, the warrior told her he had fulfilled his quest. 'Now that I have found Truth,' he said, 'what shall I tell them at the palace about you?' The wizened old creature smiled. 'Tell them,' she said, 'tell them that I am young and beautiful. reality truth Shashi Tharoor
ae5232b This is how you must be. You must become as evangelical about your promised outcome as he is about his. You must believe that you, and you alone, have the solution to your prospects problems. Even if they do not recognise those problems themselves. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
875188f If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
ad75303 My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory. enoughness faith habit hope on-being religion spirit spiritual truth virtue wholeheartedness Krista Tippett
89a1f08 I said, barely able to open my jaw enough to get the words out. Rafe looked surprised at first but seeing my face, that melted away and his own face hardened. He turned to Nicole. he said. she squeaked. Her blue eyes rounded and she flinched, like a whipped puppy seeing a raised hand. Hayley said. I clenched my fists tighter and my face started to throb, as if I was about to shift. I took a deep breath and tried to find clam so I could explain. Nicole said again, tears welling up. Sam said. She turned to the others. nicole rafe reveal sam truth Kelley Armstrong
ac370d1 "When he placed a candle on the shelf across the room from him and lit its wick, he came to realize that in fact everything he saw was a flat surface, like a screen - that in fact dimension was an illusion. Everything was a flat surface and the pinpoints of light, whether from a candle on the shelf or a gaslamp above the street, were punctures in that surface - gashes made by somebody behind the screen. He realized then that beyond everything he saw there was an entire realm of blazing sunfire, and that colors were only the silhouettes of people in that realm - walking, eating, dancing, doing whatever they were doing behind the screen. impressions light reality shadows truth Steve Erickson
772fa39 She always preferred strong lies to weak truths marriage truth women Richard Flanagan
9a763c5 I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
103d7ad You might even ask me to apply my 'theory' to myself and explain what damage I had suffered a long way back and what its consequences might be: for instance, how it might affect my reliability and truthfulness. I'm not sure I could answer this, to be honest. julian-barnes meta reliability the-sense-of-an-ending truth truthfulness unreliable-narrator Julian Barnes
aa34709 When facts are treated as if they were opinions, when there is no universal standard by which to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in the reporting of events of the day, the world becomes a place where lies become true, where people can believe what they want to believe, where there is no possibility of reaching any conclusion not predetermined by those who interpret the official, divinely inspired text. dominionism fanaticism religion science truth Chris Hedges
78e0649 It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
0061ca1 Humans have a tendency to look for things in the places where it is easiest to search for them rather than in the places where the truth is more likely to be found. relationships truth Esther Perel
937e881 Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean. lies truth Jacqueline Carey
a75a83e You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation professional-listening reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
8a342f2 You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
f2f2283 If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all opinions tolerance truth Mohsin Hamid
a6a0a44 Would that I had the courage to depart, this place or this life, or to stand openly against the wrongness that is the world of these, my kin. To seek an existence that does not run afoul to that which I believe, and to that which I hold dear faith is truth. fantasy-fiction truth R.A. Salvatore
a46b669 His belief is so passionate that it fills him with the burning desire to share his fabulous news with anyone who will listen. He is concerned that it is us that might be missing out, not him. His faith in a single road to salvation and paradise is so intense, that it would be ungodly not to share the good news with all those who are not aware. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
83da33f After a while, the story becomes the truth because no one actually remembers how things really happened. truth Jane Yolen
f5beefa Something like this changes you, it breaks you into pieces and puts you back together, but the sum total is different. inspirtational truth James Patterson
0b3b1b9 She was coming to look on men and women as fellow survivors; well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or just put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. But all, involuntarily, became part of a deeper assertion to life. Though the dissolution of love created no heroes, the process itself required some heroism. There was the risk that endurance might appear enough of an achievement. That risk had come up before. truth wisdom Shirley Hazzard
8496666 "The reason shadow histories remained in the shadows lay in the centralization of information: If an idea wasn't discussed on one of three major networks or on the pages of a major daily newspaper or national magazine, it was almost impossible for that idea to gain traction with anyone who wasn't consciously searching for alternative perspectives. That era is now over. There is no centralized information, so every idea has the same potential for distribution and acceptance. Researching the events of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center is no harder or easier than absorbing the avalanche of arguments from those who believe 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government. There will be no shadow history of the 2008 financial crisis or the 2014 New England Patriots' "Deflategate" scandal, because every possible narrative and motive was discussed in public, in real time, across a mass audience, as the events transpired. Competing modes of discourse no longer "compete." They coexist." conspiracies history media narratives truth Chuck Klosterman
a184cec Death is a terrifying experience... It threatens, with its corrosive power, our possibility of living a humane life. There are two kinds of experiences that can protect those---those able to turn to them---from the terror of the danger of death. One is the certainty of truth, the continuous awakening toward the understanding of the 'ineluctable need for truth,' without which a good life is not possible. The other is the resolute and profound illusion that life has meaning and that the meaning of life is found in performing good deeds. existence life meaning meaning-of-life truth Ricardo Piglia
a0eaee1 "I never thought before," said Tirin unruffled, "of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, and saying, 'Look, there's the Moon.' Our earth is their Moon; our Moon is their earth." "Where, then, is Truth?" declaimed Bedap, and yawned. "In the hill one happens to be sitting on," said Tirin." anarres earth hill moon truth urras Ursula K. Le Guin
854af6d In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
86334ba Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. editor fiction truth writing David Benioff
267367e he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true. truth Robert Ferrigno
c69edd8 Moments of truth are best handled face-to-face P.30 truth Patrick Lencioni
c532e6f No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you've got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and no retirement plan, where the most health insurance you can afford is being careful and hoping you don't get sick, where -- insurance truth world Cory Doctorow
4cae86a If you got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it, flaunt it. life truth Mindy Kaling
ec0cc4f Like the evangelist, I will shine with the light I have been shown, recognise that I have the ultimate solution for all my prospects, nurture that feeling deep within, and repeat the words to myself every day, until there is no doubt in my mind that keeping such good news hidden would be the very worst type of sin. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
32a2b1a Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
ee1a9c3 There's a reason we live in time. We are too small a flask [...] to tolerate too much knowing. Instead, truth must drip through us as through a pipette, to allow only moments of apprehension. Moments diffuse and miniature enough to be survived. memory moments time truth understanding Gregory Maguire
2b6cd15 It's what we do behind the scenes that affects the power and anointing we carry out in public. faith truth Joyce Meyer
960e367 He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen to or tried to understand, and the effort had drained him dry. truth truth-telling Ken Kesey
f1f15d6 Why, Mr. Anderson?, Why, why?. Why do you do it? Why, why get up?. Why keep fighting?. Do you believe you're fighting...for something?. For more than your survival?. Can you tell me what it is?. Do you even know?; Is it freedom?, Or truth?. Perhaps peace?. Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although... only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now, You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson?. Why?, Why do you persist?. Agent Smith ( Matrix Revolutions Movie, 2003 ). existence fight freedom human-beings illusions love matrix passion perception persistence survival survival-instinct truth why why-we-live win William Irwin
f9e8572 I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich, however alluring, ultimately weaken the human spirit. I take with deep seriousness Thomas Hardy's words, 'If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst. practicality psychotherapy reality self-improvement truth Irvin D. Yalom
f9f41b5 Weil der Pobel noch sein Gefuhlt hat, das bei Vornehmern durch tausend unnaturliche Vorstellungen verderbt und geschwacht wird. truth Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
8e7cad0 You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it. honesty love self-disclosure self-discovery truth Laura Dave
ebb85f7 I don't need to personally agree with something in order to recognize that it's true. truth Chuck Klosterman
8eb9cec Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
4a27cc1 [T]hey had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies. lying-by-omission truth Ursula K. Le Guin
745ce64 But what matters is not the similarities your imagination finds, but the similarities that are implicit in the image, and they are not necessarily the same. I have noticed that the more imaginative readers are often the less successful. Their minds leap to what they think is there rather than waiting with patience. And what matters most of all is where the chosen meaning comes in the hierarch of meaning, you see, and for that there is no alternative to the books. That is why the only alethiometers we know about are kept in or by great libraries. libraries library truth Philip Pullman
d2e7ed6 As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently. truth Ruth Rendell
d2118d2 I need a first-class reputation achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
d0a4d51 Everyone remembers things which never happened. And it is common knowledge that people often forget things which did. Either we are all fantasists and liars or the past has nothing definite in it. lies memory reality truth Jeanette Winterson
745d646 In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
cd52da2 A deep belief that your moment in time is the pinnacle, the only standard of judgment extending from the creation of light until the black apocalypse, that what you believe right now is eternal truth because you believe it so fervently--those deep beliefs so crucial at the moment but none of them more permanent than a puff of air across a palmful of dry talcum. time truth Charles Frazier
d741b34 His point, again and again, was that truth wasn't the property of any one faith and that, if you looked closely, you found a ground where they all converged. religion truth Jeffrey Eugenides
c80a4a3 There are so many shady things happening in this country, they're happening all around us all the time, and we just accept them. corruption country crime evil mystery philosophy truth united-states Rebecca McNutt
5458241 I shall always end my stories happily. I don't care whether it's 'true to life' or not. It's true to life as it should be, and that's a better truth than the other. life-as-it-should-be true-to-life truth L.M. Montgomery
c5f084f "The grunge, corruption, immorality, and violence that critics like to call reality are not reality at all. They are blights on reality, as rust is a blight on metal, mold is a blight on food, and pond scum is a blight on water. The true reality is found beneath the blight and what God created in the beginning - the perfection of the world as he originally made it. Only the good that God created is real. We came along and added the corruption, evil, pain, decay, and death, which are not reality but contaminations of reality. To make the concept clearer, if you leave a hammer outside in the weather long enough, you will find its head completely covered with rust. None of the original metal will be invisible. If you value the hammer, you will not accept the rust as its true reality. The true reality is the metal beneath the rust. You will use oils and abrasives to clean away the rust and restore the hammer to its original condition - its true reality. truth Michael W Smith
575e408 The thing that haunted me that day, however, as I closed my notebook and put my coat on to go home, was not my ghostly image of Dracula, or the description of impalement, but the fact that these things had- apparently- actually occurred. If I listened too closely, I thought, I would hear the screams of the boys, of the 'large family' dying together. For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth. And once you've seen that truth-really seen it-you can't look away. history history-as-a-guide truth vlad-the-impaler Elizabeth Kostova
3b0fc24 At a deeper level what this whole exchange revealed to me was something disturbing about the way science works. I hadn't quite grasped the role of before. But I could see it in action everywhere here: fear of being 'noticed and monitored by colleagues,' fear of unwanted negative celebrity, fear of indignity, fear of loss of reputation, fear of loss of career--and not for committing some terrible crime but simply for exploring unorthodox possibilities and undertaking 'somewhat controversial research' into what everyone agrees were extraordinary events 12,800 years ago. Worse still, this pervasive state of fear has somehow ingrained itself so deeply into the fabric of science that those who have embraced unorthodox possibilities themselves are often among the least willing to consider unorthodox possibilities embraced by others--lest by doing so they 'contaminate' their own preferred unorthodoxy. How will it ever be possible to discover the truth about the past when so much fear gets in the way? controversy establishment exploring fear science shills truth unorthodoxy Graham Hancock
da96124 This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight. evil truth Jane Smiley
782af99 The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lies. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed. nobel-prize-in-literature politics truth Harold Pinter
ff76c1f People will believe anything. Except, it seems, the truth. gullibility truth Jeanette Winterson
c1dfcc7 The Truth can set us free. freedom-quotes history history-quotes inspirational-quotes truth truth-quotes James W. Loewen
dc20f25 The truth was sometimes more fatal than a lie. truth P.D. James
bfcb016 And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
be13431 ...there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart... truth Umberto Eco
32fa7c2 Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
b8b86e9 Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic happiness happiness-quote listening listening-skills listening-to-others moving-forward perseverance personal-planning positive positivity presentation professional-listening reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
665e9b6 I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help. achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achievements achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving business doing evangelical evangelism evangelistic moving-forward perseverance personal-planning presentation reputation sales sales-advice sales-effectiveness sales-training selling success success-in-business success-in-life success-quotes success-self-improvement success-strategies successful-living tenacity truth Chris Murray
b68fb29 If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth! god guilt inspiration parent truth Stormie Omartian
2e19708 Feel these muscles and understand how they boast the truth! inspirational muscles truth Hiromu Arakawa
a1200ce The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it. lying true truth Sean Patrick Brennan
9f71671 He never recorded the writer or the source: he didn't want to be bullied by reputation; truth should stand by itself, clear and unsupported. quotations the-only-story truth Julian Barnes
28650e9 Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see? desire perspective truth Kate Elliott
28117f4 The painter and the writer are not just copyists or even illusionists, but through some deeper vision of their subject-matter may become privileged truth tellers. fiction truth Iris Murdoch
81bb046 The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true. truth Robert Ferrigno
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