Wilhelm Steinitz Quotes
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Tell the truth.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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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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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
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Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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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.
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In truth, Jesus did not, in his own time, attract much notice.
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Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
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I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
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If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.
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I'll never stop wanting to kiss you," he whispered.
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Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.
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Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
