We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
Martin Luther King Jr.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.
William Shakespeare
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
Mahatma Gandhi
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Alfred North Whitehead
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
John Locke
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Thomas H. Huxley
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
Jean Cocteau
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Julius Charles Hare
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon De La Barca
In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.
Charles Keating
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.
François R. Chateaubriand
Among my most successful clients lie a handful of critical steps that kept them on track, and kept their goals in focus. These goal achievers avoided some costly mistakes by learning these very simple truths that could save you time, money, effort, and energy as you pursue your personal fitness goals this year.
Leah Arnold
I continually am confronted by Christians, even active members of major churches, who have never heard this taught in their local congregations. We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.
Al Mohler
We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.
Tom Hopkins
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Philip James Bailey
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.
Stefan Kanfer
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
One of the most difficult tasks for the educated and sophisticated mind is to recognize that some clichés are also important truths.
Robertson Davies
No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre.
A. A. Hodge
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
Nelson Goodman
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
William Herschel
I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.
David Blaine
That report contains half-truths and many truths have not been told.
John Chiang
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
Sherwood Anderson
Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights into His great truths.
Dale Evans Rogers
The human heart doesn't change that much, ... I think they're a few writers where you don't understand where their talent comes from. Those kind of artists speak inherent emotional truths we'll always be attached to.
Joe Wright
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
Anita Brookner
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Edward R. Murrow
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
James Newman
Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.
John Kotter
...it is not by reflection and intelligence, but by perception, that the highest and purest truths are attained.
Anatole France
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
Jacques Prevert
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick Ii
It's amazing how ignorant a person can be, but there's something about our ears that ends up telling us some truths.
David Harrington
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Frederick The Great
Viewers who tune in this season will see a dynamic show with polish and professionalism, dedicated to revealing important truths about spirituality in contemporary Canadian society.
John Scully
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.
Arthur Koestler
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Neil Gaiman
Two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are obviously absurd, and profound truths, recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
Niels Bohr
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison
We are not the first group to call for impeachment. We have decided to add our voice to the call. All the reasons given for the invasion have shown themselves to be half-truths or misleading. The conflict continues to drag on taking the lives of our soldiers and innocent Iraqis. It is clear that George Bush does not intend to change course in an effort to right .
David Cline
A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not f.
James Boswell
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. Liddell Hart
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.
Diana Ossana
Words are sometimes sensitive instruments of precision with which delicate operations may be performed and swift, elusive truths may be touched; often they are clumsy tools with which we grope in the dark toward truths more inaccessible but no less s.
Helen Merell Lynd
Nothing else could move me more than your working thoughts exploring the infinity of understanding. This vision of you always seeking the truths of the world gives me hope that the world will be better one day. Thank you, my love.
Mariana Fulger
'As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. It's such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, 'Well, if this is a truth that I know about that's not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?''.
Serj Tankian
These are things kids struggle with every day, ... and these comics are a format that will grab their attention, then turn them toward biblical principles and truths.
Tim Wildmon
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
Karl Pearson
Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Cliff Fadiman
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Remy De Gourmont
Truth is always the sum of two half truths and one never catches them at the same time!
Harold J. Duarte bernhardt
One of the sad truths I have come to see is that for this kind of mass violence, you don't need monsters. Ordinary people will do just fine. This thing lives in all of us.
Craig Etcheson
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
Alan K. Simpson
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.
G. Wilhelm Leibniz
The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
John Williamson
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
We try to make things relevant to the lives of students culturally and by teaching timeless truths. This allows us to be on their field, their turf.
Jayson Samuels
Sacred texts are universal and their truths are eternal. There is not a thing that we sing that doesn't have our personal conviction.
David Chalmers
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths.
Alexander Pushkin
I think that coming to terms with one's own faith is part of the college experience. We like to give solid biblical truths to bring new people to the Lord and allow those who already know Christ to continue their spiritual journey.
Jeff Reynolds
The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else's life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives that somehow we hadn't been able to see before.
Katherine Patterson
Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.
Edgar A. Shoaff
'On the Road' is a seminal book that gave voice to a whole generation -- capturing its hunger for experience, unwillingness to accept imposed truths and dissatisfaction with the status quo.
Walter Salles
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
Most of our matches have scriptural and spiritual truths in them. We aren't blatant ... If people know what they are looking for, they will see it.
Eric Hutchinson
It's the key way the Renaissance views itself, in that you can have universal truths within a short exposition of picture and text. ... It's alien to how we gain knowledge these days.
Elizabeth Black
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
Edmond About
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