Dorothy Salisbury Davis Quotes
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.
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If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' always, everywhere, and by all, as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.
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I'm just a tough old woman.
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Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.
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I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.
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We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
