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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Yair Lapid
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
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
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
Gabriel Byrne
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
I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.
Anne Heche
Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.
Adi Da
My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
Big Boi
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
Rand Paul
The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
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
