Truth Revealed Quotes

• A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

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  David Brewster

  Truth   Giving   Doctrine  

  David Brewster (1854). “More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian”, p.138

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• The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

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  Lord Acton

  Past   Rivers   Gold  

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.1, VM eBooks

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• 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.

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  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dark   Night   Light  

  Joyce Carol Oates (1991). “Heat and other stories”, E P Dutton

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Funny   Witty   Being Yourself  

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men.

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  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men   Heaven   Truth Revealed  

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• Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

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  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking   Talking   Truth Revealed  

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• Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself   Truth   Honesty  

  "The Critic as Artist". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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• Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

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  Frederick William Faber

  Government   Evil   Attention  

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Growth in holiness, or the progress of the spiritual life”, p.91

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• On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.

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  George A. Sheehan

  Running   Waiting   Understanding  

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• The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

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  Swami Vivekananda

  Law   Vedas   Truth Revealed  

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2168, Manonmani Publishers

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