Best truth-is & being-true Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.”

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Book:Process and Reality

Source: Process and Reality

“Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.”

Knows Might Truth Is Lists Being True

Author:Merrill Markoe

“To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.”

Way Writing Character Bigs Lying Truth Is Being True Big Things

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.”

Ifs May Truth Strange Truth Is Increase Being True Propositions Strange Things

Book:The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order

Source: The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order

“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

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Book:Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor

Source: Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor

“You know, you put a lot of ingredients in there and you hope something comes out that has an interesting taste to your palate. I think ultimately what...what God was guiding me to do was. (to) talk about our paths and the uniqueness of each of our paths and truth being the key to getting on your path, being true to what you really want in life.”

Thinking Knows Want Interesting Path Keys Taste Truth Is Being True Ingredients Uniqueness Palate

Author:Corbin Bernsen

“It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.”

Way Firsts Important Events Truth Is Concepts Essence Important Things Notion Being True Academic

Author:Mike Leigh

“As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.”

Thinking Knows Imagine Truth Is Being True Willingness Awakened

Author:Keith David

“We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. But there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.”