How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
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SOPHOCLES All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, o...
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form...
THE TRUTH Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.
THE TRUTH Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b...
THE TRUTH Help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it may be.
STEVE CHANDLER Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures help us to build a strong trust in the truth of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and i...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matte...
DAN BROWN There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can b...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at.
THE HELP I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry,...
THE HELP Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowl...
JOHANN GEORG VON ZIMMERMANN Perjury in the courtroom can be eliminated by changing the oath to read: Do you solemly swear that S...
VINCE MEGNA The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
BORIS JOHNSON No lie's in the truth but sometimes there can be truth in a lie. No man's the same but the pain they...
ONEE'SHA FORD Where can I find help when I can't release the truth that hurts.
BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭 ベーゼル) If you are in doubt, you are close to the truth
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Three things can not be hidden; The Sun, The Moon, and The Truth.
BUDDAH There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
JOHN STEINBECK No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the sour...
BARRY LONG In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD Telling the truth has always come naturally to me. And I realize, that people like me are the reason...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Devil has perverted God’s truth and people lack the knowledge of this truth
SUNDAY ADELAJA No one knows absolutely; knowledge is relative, except 'Truth'.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Without the human my friend, truth has no value whatsoever. So, do not be blinded by the false glory...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Knowledge is the accumulation of truth, wisdom is knowing how to apply it to your life.
JOHNNY WALKER Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes ...
LIONEL SUGGS Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.
Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.
ABERJHANI There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks co...
ADLIN SINCLAIR I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it m...
ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in o...
HU SHIH No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, n...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of tru...
BRIAN ALDISS Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I...
ALBERT CAMUS There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER The light is within, you just need the spark.
REUBEN BERGER How can we be witnesses of the one true God if we hold the truth as our own possession? God meant hi...
FRANCINE RIVERS Knowledge isn't the issue, it's what you think you know that's not the truth.
RICK PRICE Every one of us can do something about the truth. You can at least stand for the truth wherever you ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possibl...
KATHY ACKER Speak well to people; tell them the truth today! If you meet them another day, tell them the same tr...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR कुत्ते और आदमी में बुनियादी फर्क ये है...
SURENDER MOHAN PATHAK Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a diffe...
IRA LEVIN Jealousy Is a strange but dark emotion eating at your very inner self if we let it, it will eventual...
GARY F EVANS... To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it,...
BLAISE PASCAL It is safe to say that every truth in the histories of those times (The Bible) is the result of acci...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Stop opposing the truths.The truth is truth no matter how you take it. It is not going to be changed...
BIKASH BHANDARI We all have that divine moment, when our lives are transformed by the knowledge of the truth.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The only thing that can set a man free from any chains is the knowledge of Truth.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
LAURA RIDING How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
CAROLINE STEVERMER When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless...
ORSON SCOTT CARD There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its fo...
ARNOLD BENNETT We error in our ways for lack of knowledge of the Truth of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SR. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Only knowledge and truth may result in freedom of mind.
ERALDO BANOVAC It's kind of hard to retain the feminine. I have so much respect for the feminine, but it's ...
LAUREN SOUTHERN I share the Truth in hopes it will help others be Set Free.
DEBRA ROBERTS When the truth spills it can be hard to clean up
SHANE ALLEN SMITH Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be...
MELODY BEATTIE We know the truth of a matter when we are able to see and understand it. The truth does not change, ...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU No one's faith can turn the truth.
RICARDO ALONSO I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth t...
BRIAN ALDISS I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't se...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ There is no gem like truth, no wealth like knowledge, no treasure like understanding, and no jewel l...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The truth does not need a number of supporters for authenticity. One person among the lot can be the...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR How can telling the truth make someone a sinner?
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
DELIA EPHRON Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, bea...
UNKNOWN Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.
SUZANNE COLLINS When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced...
ALSTON CHASE When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced t...
ALSTON CHASE The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is re...
GERMANY KENT Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
TIM CROUCH If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
CARL SAGAN The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
JOHN F. KENNEDY In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road to
theological knowledge. It ...
CHRISTOS YANNARAS So long as the priest, that denier, calumniator and poisoner of life by profession, still counts as ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you manipulate the truth, it is no long the truth. There is no such thing as a half truth or an...
BOBBY W. MILLER Healers make the most dreadful enemies, Scion of the House of Strong-in-the-Arm. The knowledge that ...
STUART HILL It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.
CALEB CARR Artes, scientia, veritas
[Arts, knowledge, truth]
MOTTO Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always ch...
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A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
SOPHOCLES You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
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All men make mistakes, it is only human.
B...
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Y...
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