Quotes 661 till 680 of 1376.
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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth.
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
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Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.
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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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