Richard Feynman Quotes
You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.Richard Feynman
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Tell the truth.
Ian Hunter -
Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
Pamela Meyer -
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Harlan Howard -
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Pablo Picasso -
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
Walter Isaacson
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The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
Harold Prince -
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Walter Raleigh -
Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
Brown Campbell -
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus -
Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
Carl Sagan -
My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
Edgar Allan Poe -
It seemed, at least, that they had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.
Ben Jonson -
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume -
I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.
Neal Boortz -
The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.
Elmore Leonard
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He objected on principle to the powerful.
Jack McDevitt -
You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.
Scott M. Gimple -
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Ben Jonson -
You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.
Richard Feynman