Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Lactantius
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Tasha Smith
The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
Carl Sagan
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
Madeleine L'Engle
It seemed, at least, that they had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Worship is so much more than the songs I sing. Instead, worship is in the heart that lifts the song. If you think about it, worship began when I woke up this morning. My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.
Mark Hall
Casting Crowns
I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.
Ken Dodd
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Aziz Ansari
There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.
Betty Smith
A helicopter with pilot, Kashoggi's yacht with crew, and a small town with a female population.
Phil Collen
Def Leppard
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
Miguel de Cervantes