Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • John Holt The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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  • Voltaire The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • C. Venkata Raman The true wealth of a nation consists not in the stored-up gold but in the intellectual and physical strength of its people.
    C. Venkata Raman
    Indian physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1888 - 1970)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Phillips Brooks The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Henry Home The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
    Henry Home
    British lawyer and writer (1696 - 1782)
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  • William Hazlitt The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Frederick the Great The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Susan Sontag The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Hermann Hesse The truth is lived, not taught.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Ayn Rand The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Anne Sullivan The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Vance Palmer The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
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  • Benjamin Cohen The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Helen Hayes The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • David Mitchell The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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