Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
Quotes to Explore
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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Peace is its own reward.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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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.
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My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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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.
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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.
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The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.
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A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.
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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.
