Jules Michelet Quotes
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
Jules Michelet
Quotes to Explore
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
Patrick Ness
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
Natalie Wood
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At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
Madison Marlow
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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.
Hans Eysenck
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
Hannah Arendt
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.
Salman Rushdie
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It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
Rajneesh
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Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
Tupac Shakur
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Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
Colum McCann
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If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
Ian MacKaye
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Oliver Goldsmith
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As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.
Brie Larson
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.
George Muller
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In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were, - first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.
James Madison
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The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
Jules Michelet
