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
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. Forbes
Tell the truth.
Ian Hunter
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
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 talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.
Danica McKellar
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
Ed Asner
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
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Saint Ignatius
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
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
Adam Clarke
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
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
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
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
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
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
Carl Bernstein
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
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Francis Bacon
And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.
Paul Strand
Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
Cameron Russell
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
