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truth sleep men
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
truth truth-is
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
truth may contradicting
Truths may clash without contradicting each other. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
truth war power
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men. B. H. Liddell Hart
truth-is norm truth-and-falsehood
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. C. S. Lewis
truth lying myth
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth. C. S. Lewis
truth mystery wonder
Nothing is yet in its true form. C. S. Lewis
truth live-life thinking
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis
truth matter ifs
It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. C. S. Lewis
honesty men thinking
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man? C. S. Lewis
honesty ideas special
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty. Carl Sagan
honesty thinking hollywood
They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself. Bette Davis
honesty mistake responsibility
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts. Bill Vaughan
honesty scapegoat
I did it, in all honesty, because I thought I was going to be made a scapegoat in this case. Burton Kaplan
honesty mind ornaments
A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves. Lord Shaftesbury
honesty simple justice
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for. Charles Kennedy
honesty jail natural-instinct
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance. Charles Comiskey
honesty ignorance humility
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. Charles Darwin
lying sea clouds
Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
lying fall hands
My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could solve that.” Patch’s hands closed on my hips. Becca Fitzpatrick
lying nice black
Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap. Becca Fitzpatrick
lying eye focus
Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil. Becca Fitzpatrick
lying reality men
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. B. H. Liddell Hart
lying atmosphere adequate
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions. B. H. Liddell Hart
lying thinking guitar
Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you. B. B. King
lying men differences
I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior. B. F. Skinner
lying book reading
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them. C. S. Lewis