John Sterling Quotes
Knowledge, or more expressively truth, for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence, truth is an ideal whole.
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Tell the truth.
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
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The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
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Because of all this, I am at a loss to know whether to weep more for those they killed or those that are captured: or indeed for these men themselves whom the devil has taken fast for his slaves. In truth, they will bind themselves alongside him in the pains of the everlasting pit: for 'he who sins is a slave already' and is to be called 'son of the devil.'
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With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.
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If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'
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Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.
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You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
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We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
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Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
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Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ... oh man ... what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.
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Knowledge, or more expressively truth, for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence, truth is an ideal whole.
