William Blake Quotes
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
Quotes to Explore
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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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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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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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 larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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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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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
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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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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.
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The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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Cows are my passion.
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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
