Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Up
  • War
  • Destruction

• First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Different
  • Think
  • First

• I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Good
  • Age
  • House

• I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

  

  Matthew Bourne
  • Music
  • True
  • Respect

• I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

  

  Jim McKay

• Denial is a very powerful thing.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Powerful

• Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

  

  Jeanine Basinger
  • Teacher

• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Words

• Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Truths
  • Conduct

• Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Communication
  • Possible
  • Truths

• Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Language
  • Truths
  • Falsehood

• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Popular
  • Force
  • Truths

• There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Discover
  • Truths
  • Human Life

• The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Practice
  • Dreams
  • Truths

• A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Man
  • Knowing
  • Truths

• What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Errors
  • Truths
  • Give Up

• All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Songs
  • Pictures
  • Truths

• In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

  

  Anne Baxter
  • Liberty
  • Charity
  • Unity

• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Justice
  • Punishment
  • Civil Society

• People think that when they come up to me, screaming things into my ear, that I will respond according to what they want. I'll turn around and smile and take the photo. But I'm not somebody's marionette.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • People
  • Smile
  • Respond

• Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Human
  • Resist
  • Great spirit

• Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Truths
  • Demonstrable
  • Ineluctable