Gerald Massey Quotes

I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.

Gerald Massey

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• I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Think
  • Learn
  • Battle

• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Truth
  • Hurt
  • Unless

• 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
  • Great
  • Truth

• Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Blind

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• All truth is not to be told at all times.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Times
  • Truth Is

• Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • She
  • Truth
  • Today

• War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth

• Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Evil

• Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Simplicity

• 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
  • People
  • Truth
  • Jesus

• If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Ignorance

• The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Truth
  • History
  • Lies

• I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Men
  • Truth

• My job is not to be liked. My job is to tell the truth.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Job
  • Truth

• If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

  

  Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Good
  • Believe
  • She

• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Time
  • Majority
  • Pause

• Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Now

• Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.

  

  Gar Alperovitz
  • World
  • Country
  • Common

• I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.

  

  Gerald Massey
  • Truth
  • Facts
  • Battle