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truth hideous
The truth--a hideous spectacle! Conrad Aiken
truth honesty lying
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself. Sydney J. Harris
truth mistake believe
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson
truth disillusionment
Disillusionment is not truth. Mason Cooley
truth power errors
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
truth phantoms truth-is
Truth is a necessary phantom.
truth want bathroom
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
truth suits cases
Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case. Margaret Oliphant
truth miracle monsters
I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself. Michel de Montaigne
wisdom true-life life-is
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. Thomas Merton
wisdom prayer inspired
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
wisdom culture study
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. Raymond Queneau
wisdom men effort
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... Victor Hugo
wisdom hands monsters
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
wisdom verbs
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
wisdom flower suffering
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
wisdom children keeping-secrets
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
wisdom men animal
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.