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
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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.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
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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
  • Believe
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• I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Kind
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• I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Great
  • 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
  • Truth
  • Human
  • Information

• There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Truth

• The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• 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
  • Truth
  • Boy
  • Lies

• When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it.No, if it isn't in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, 'Nothing doing,' and refuse to inspect it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Truth

• I know nothing of that directly; I only know what I have been told by other young ones who couldn’t have known directly either. I want to find out the truth about them and the wanting has grown until there is more of curiosity in me than fear.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Curiosity

• The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Truth
  • Lost

• A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Truth

• Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Soul

• What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

  

  Jean Marais
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Remember

• The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

  

  David Hewson
  • Truth
  • Spanish

• When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

  

  Frederick Sanger
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Truth

• My body gets weak without truth.

  

  Andrei Platonov
  • Truth

• I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Honor
  • Down
  • Turn

• Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Lost

• The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Destruction
  • Jews
  • Jewish

• 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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  • Poet
  • Sing