Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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• The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

  

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• When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'

  

  Malese Jow
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• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• Peace is its own reward.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

  

  Parker Palmer
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• I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

  

  J. R. Smith
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  • Game
  • Always

• As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• 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
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• I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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  • Always
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• When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.

  

  Becky G
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• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • May
  • Truth
  • Fall

• My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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  • Hand
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• To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.

  

  William Pepperell Montague
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• When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
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  • Ocean

• The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling.

  

  David Shields
  • People
  • Hate

• As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception' painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Eyes
  • Wisdom
  • Blessed

• He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Work
  • Night
  • Die

• It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Own