Joseph Lewis Quotes

Atheism believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.

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• I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Business
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• 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.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Truth
  • Advice
  • President

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Alone

• She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • She
  • Truth

• Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled antisemite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Truth
  • America
  • True

• Truth never was indebted to a lie.

  

  Edward Young
  • Truth

• The desire for truth so prominent in the quest of science, a reaching out of the spirit from its isolation to something beyond, a response to beauty in nature and art, an Inner Light of conviction and guidance-are these as much a part of our being as our sensitivity to sense impressions?

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Nature

• A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Time
  • Business
  • Truth

• I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth.

  

  Don Lemon
  • People
  • Truth
  • Proud

• You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

  

  Alan Cohen
  • Truth

• What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Scary

• My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • People
  • Truth
  • Spiritual

• As you become more senior in your career, it can be thin at the top - It's harder and harder to get unbiased and direct feedback when making decisions. You want people who will speak truth to power. Say no to any 'yes men or women' on your personal board. When you face a personal crossroads, you need honest advisors.

  

  Margo Georgiadis
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

  

  Nancy Etcoff
  • Imagination
  • Beauty
  • Parts

• I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Women
  • Think
  • Nice

• I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Goals

• Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

  

  Raymond Smullyan
  • People
  • Lifetime
  • Magician

• Atheism believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal and that virtue is its own reward.

  

  Joseph Lewis
  • Truth
  • Virtue
  • Atheism