Barry Long Quotes

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

Barry Long

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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.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Simple

• It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Behind
  • Preach

• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • You
  • Truth Is
  • Minority

• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Truth
  • Moral
  • Truth Is

• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Acting
  • Story

• The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Become

• Facts are many, but the truth is one.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Facts
  • Truth Is

• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Easy

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

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Hope

• I was not silent, I answered every top journalist in the country from 2002–2007, but noticed there was no exercise to understand truth.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Exercise

• He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Truth
  • True
  • Game

• Ridiculous as may seem the dualities of conflict at a given time, it does not follow that dualism is a worthless process. The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

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

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Truth

• I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Rock

• We are a nation of borders and - I mean, that is one of the main things that the federal government is in charge with, and that is protecting the citizens of the United States and our whole nation.

  

  Matt Rosendale

• Most people believe that inequality is rising - and indeed it has been rising for a while in a number of rich countries. And there is lots of talk and realization of this. It's harder to understand that at the same time, you can actually have global inequality going down. Technically speaking, national inequality can increase in every single country and yet global inequality can go down. And why it is going down is because very large, populous, and relatively poor countries like India and China are growing quite fast.

  

  Branko Milanovic
  • Believe
  • China
  • Realization

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• In Indonesia, Qualcomm, in a joint project with Grameen Foundation, has provided a range of mobile phone-based services to individuals. This project facilitates the creation of businesses for those living at the bottom of the economic pyramid and, at the same time, extends telecommunication access to people who cannot afford a mobile phone.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • People
  • Time

• Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

  

  Barry Long
  • Truth
  • Discover
  • Recognised