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  • My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.

    Heart   Doors   Mind  
    "About Kazuaki Tanahashi: An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax". Shambhala Interview, www.shambhala.com.
  • The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.

    Couple   Hands   Computer  
  • As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

  • War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

    Military   War   Race  
    Walter Bagehot (1999). “Physics and Politics, Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, Ivan R Dee
  • Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

    John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.501, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

    Children   Self   Years  
    "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.
  • Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the information your own scouts provided that mattered, not reports from unknown people whose veracity you couldn't prove.

    War   Fighting   People  
    David Weber (2014). “Safehold Boxed Set 1: Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, and By Heresies Distressed”, p.709, Tor Science Fiction
  • No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.275
  • I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

  • A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.

    Eyebrows   Voice   Doubt  
    "Spiro Agnew's Media Legacy: Trump, Obama and Time Magazine" by Jeffrey Lord, www.newsbusters.org. February 11, 2017.
  • The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

    Life   Sweet   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.615, Library of America
  • Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

  • One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

    Fall   Men   Perfect  
    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
  • "O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity.

    Love   Passion   Looks  
    Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.270
  • Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost of pedantic - veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

    Mistake   Lying   Air  
    Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.55, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise the veracity of them. That they are real things. Sometimes it even goes beyond logic, it's just a sense of something.

    Real   Mind   Levels  
    "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.

  • No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.

    Men   Doe   Facts  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.261, Penguin
  • Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

  • I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?

    Past   Thinking   Ideas  
  • Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

  • I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  • I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

  • The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

    "Charges Filed Against Jose Padilla; Bird Flu Fears". "The Situation Room", www.cnn.com. November 22, 2005.
  • They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

    Liars   Lying   Men  
    William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America
  • What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that they look like life rather than movie stills. I don't want them to look fabricated.

  • Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.

    Christian   Eye   Men  
    Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.316
  • Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

    Writing   Political   Way  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.157, Princeton University Press
  • Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

    Book   Writing   Fool  
    Letter to Horace Walpole, 25 February 1768, in H. W. Starr (ed.) 'Correspondence of Thomas Gray' (1971) vol. 3, letter 471
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