Benito Perez Galdos Quotes
The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes
use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.
Benito Perez Galdos
Quotes to Explore
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Tell the truth.
Ian Hunter
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
Origen
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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
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
Dag Hammarskjold
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
Kanye West
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
A. B. Yehoshua
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln
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They did it wrong, Doc. They made mistakes. And they'll keep it this way, just because everyone wants to believe it. They don't want to know the truth, Doc. It's easier for everyone this way. If enough people believe the fantasy, well, then it becomes the reality. But we know, Doc. We know who belongs where, don't we?
Harlan Ellison
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
Carl Bernstein
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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
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A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.
Anthony de Mello
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But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
Benjamin Franklin
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Even in times of war, you can see current events in their historical perspective, provided that your passion for the truth prevails over your bias in favor of your own nation.
Leo Szilard
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We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
Javier Bardem
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I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.
Emile Zola
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You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
Franz Schubert
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Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.
Chrisette Michele Payne
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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
Boris Johnson
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If we can keep you healthy, that is better. If you fall sick, you go to the hospital. Both sides, Philips is present.
Frans van Houten
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The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
Martin Freeman
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The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes
use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.
Benito Perez Galdos
