Confucius Quotes

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

Confucius

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Consequences

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Truth
  • Parents

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Equal

• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • People
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Equal
  • Bear
  • Judges

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Myself

• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Truth
  • America

• 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
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Behind
  • Preach

• In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of crimes often become social outcasts for life, finding it difficult or impossible to rent an apartment, get a job, adopt children, access public benefits, serve on juries, or vote.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Knowing
  • Deceived

• Roe v. Wade very clearly sets out that there can be regulations on abortion so long as the life and the health of the mother are taken into account.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Abortion
  • Regulations
  • Roe v. Wade

• I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s.

  

  Maria Muldaur
  • Children
  • Song

• Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

  

  Daymond John
  • People
  • Value

• Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

  

  Confucius
  • Truth
  • Equal
  • Love It