Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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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.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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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 is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
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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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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.
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From wonder into wonder existence opens.
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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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When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
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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 knew better than to let you break my heart The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars You still love her I can see it in your eyes The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.
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I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's 'symbolism'. Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.
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Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
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We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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All right, so we’re also all fucked up. But hey, you think sober people aren’t all fucked up? The world is being run by sober people—and it doesn’t look like it’s working out all that well.
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Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
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Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
