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  • The truth is more important than the facts.

    Wise   Witty   Truth  
    Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier
  • Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

    Truth   Profound   Unseen  
  • As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

  • A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

    R. K. Narayan (1978). “The English Teacher”, p.177, University of Chicago Press
  • Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

  • My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

    Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.185, Penguin
  • All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

    Truth   Profound   Firsts  
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1854). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c”, p.282
  • you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.

    Dark   Night   Light  
    Joyce Carol Oates (1991). “Heat and other stories”, E P Dutton
  • If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

    Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD
  • The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

    Song: Where Are You Tonight?
  • ...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".

  • Something cannot emerge from nothing.

    Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.185, Penguin
  • It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

    J. Robert Oppenheimer (2014). “Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community”, p.87, Princeton University Press
  • Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

    Profound   Noble   Sun  
    Annie Besant (2016). “Esoteric Christianity”, p.7, BookRix
  • ... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

    Profound   Mind   Admirer  
  • If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

    Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  • Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

    Moving   Two   Profound  
  • There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

  • But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

    Sight   Profound   Vision  
    Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.488, Simon and Schuster
  • If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  • The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

    Art   Lying   Reality  
  • Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

    Kings   Men   Profound  
    Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing
  • The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

  • Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time.

    Sharon Salzberg (2010). “Real Happiness - Enhanced Ebook Edition: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program”, p.6, Workman Publishing
  • Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret.

  • Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

  • It is so important that our lives are built not on our feelings or circumstances, but on the word of God, and songs can really help us to meditate on and retain truth. I know from the correspondence I regularly receive that if you can express in songs the profound truth of the gospel in a poetic yet accessible way, they really can have an impact in people's lives.

    Song   Impact   People  
  • Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

  • Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

    Profound   Honest   Quiet  
    Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing
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