Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Quotes
It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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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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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
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'I’m a terrible salesman,' he finally said. 'I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.'
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She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all.
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
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Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
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Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.
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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
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Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.
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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
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Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.
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It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.
