Ingmar Bergman Quotes
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and illegible liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

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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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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
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There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
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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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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.
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I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and illegible liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.