T Quotes
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“The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.”
Source: Clarence Thomas -- Confronting the Future: Selections from the Senate Confirmation Hearings and Prior Speeches
“The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.”
“The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.”
“The truth of the matter is, Satan and God may want the exact same event to take place - but for different reasons. Satan's motive in Jesus' crucifixion was rebellion; God's motive was love and mercy. Satan was a secondary cause behind the Crucifixion, but it was God who ultimately wanted it, willed it, and allowed Satan to carry it out. And the same holds true for disease.”
Source: A Step Further
“The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.”
“The truth of the matter is, the policies of this administration, which Hillary Clinton and Senator Kaine want to continue, have run this economy into a ditch.”
“The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture.”
Source: Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home
“The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.”
“The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.”
“The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.”
“The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.”
“The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that. The important thing was that, when I did see the stars (riotously darting in all directions according to the caprice of their own wild natures, yet in every movement confirming the law), the whole tangled horror that had tormented me finally presented itself to me in its truth and beautiful shape. And I knew that the first, blind stage of my childhood had ended.”
Source: Odd John
“The truth of the profane was the falsehood of the Neophyte, and the truth of the Neophyte was the falsehood of the Zelator! Again and again the fortress must be battered down! Again and again the pylon must be overthrown! Again and again must the gods be desecrated!”
Source: Visions & Voices: Aleister Crowley's Enochian Visions with Astrological & Qabalistic Commentary
“The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.”
Source: Musashi
“The truth of the statement was like a wadded-up handerchief, sopping wet in my fists, and the sooner they accepted it the quicker I could let my hands open and the air would cool my palms.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“The truth of the story lies in the details.”
Source: The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel
“The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.”
Source: Tractatus logico-philosophicus: The German text Logisch-philosophische abhandlung
“THE TRUTH OF THE VERY SMALL
When he is born, a baby's head is filled with the knowledge of space. The circumference of his skull is as infinite as the twirlings of the universe. His eyes look out with the blur of eyes which see for all species. He has remembered his own nature from past patterns. Now his heart beats through rock, sky, oceans. He feels the silence and the sound all around the world beneath his skin.
We all hold somewhere deep within us the truth we accepted in innocence. The seas, the forests, the soil, the atmosphere, are all vital parts of an ongoing system. By harming any part of it we must ultimately harm ourselves. It is that simple.”
Source: SPAN
“The truth of the words' definition is action.”
“The truth of the world”
“The truth of the world is like Air, which is there but unexplainable.”
“The truth of the world is that in every group you will find some good and some bad people – which is why I am keenly aware that no group is ALL bad, just as no group is ALL good.”
Source: Pearls Before Swine
“The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The truth of this world is, majority of the human society takes nonsense to be sense and con-sense to be conscience.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“The truth of truths is love.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“The truth of what you've been through is only part of the story, keep writing the chapters your older self will enjoy reading.”
“The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.”
“the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that”
“The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.”
“The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations.”
“The truth of your dharma rests in the fact that you matter. Your existence matters. And every single person has a unique, special, meaningful purpose for existence--whether that purpose is easy to spot or subtle.”
Source: A Little Bit of Mindfulness: An Introduction to Being Present
“The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.”
Source: Sanford Meisner on Acting
“The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.”
Source: Essays in Zen Buddhism
“The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.”
“The truth often does sound unconvincing.”
Source: Murder at the manor: The Seven dials mystery, Crooked House, Ordeal by innocence
“The truth often sounds paradoxical.”
Source: 道德经
“The truth on a based of lie is a deadly disease of society.”
“The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.”
“The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.”
Source: The Coldest Winter
“The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.”
Source: Character and Opinion in the United States
“The truth really does set you free — but what they don’t tell you is the process hurts like hell.”
Source: Toxic
“The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.”
“The truth reveals itself in the most innocent of ways. You can lie and deceive, attempt to bury that which you wish to remain unseen. Yet the truth flourishes, rising from it's prison to stand tall for all to see.”
“The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.”
Source: Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con
“The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.”
“The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.”
“The truth seems to have many faces, and sometimes I’m not sure which one I’m dealing with.”
Source: A Cold and Secret Death: A Cold War Mystery