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The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text orients one to a world of order, meaning, and the possibility of knowing truth. -- Douglas Groothuis
If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you. -- Anne Elisabeth Stengl
..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough? -- John Stossel
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. -- Robert Collier
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. -- Alan Cohen
The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder. -- Robin Wright
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living. -- Thomas a Kempis
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. -- Frank Herbert
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence. -- Apollonius of Tyana
How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life? -- Foster Friess
Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. -- Bryant H. McGill
Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people. -- Michael Sheen
It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing. -- Jack Ruby
Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away. -- Charles Jencks
Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that. -- Kid Rock
Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials. -- Michael Musto
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. -- Terry Gross
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. -- George Saunders
Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. -- William Kingdon Clifford
I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders. -- Jeff Kinney
Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life. -- Kirk Cameron
Knowing the truth is not always a kindness. -- Rosamund Hodge
The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause. -- Aristotle
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing... -- Robert Collier
Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good. -- Albert Schweitzer
Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it". -- Vivian Amis
Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away. -- Hakuin Ekaku
To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it. -- Sorin Cerin
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it. -- David Hawkins
the worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren't worth the truth. -- Turcois Ominek
Knowing the truth. Feeling the truth. And acting on the truth. Are three very separate entities, -- Isabella Poretsis
Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference. -- David Deida
Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God. -- Gian Kumar
Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day. -- Nancy Pearcey
If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search. -- Walker Percy
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely. -- Aristotle
Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say itand even more to live it. -- Criss Jami
This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it. -- Criss Jami
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief. -- Charles Spurgeon
Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth. -- Orson Scott Card
Real integrity comes from knowing oneself and believing in truth, without compromise, and no matter how challenging. Integrity is a beautiful thing. -- Sameh Elsayed
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. -- Frank Herbert
The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night. -- Karen White
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question. -- George Eliot
the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely. -- Harriet Lerner
..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth. -- Lian Hearn
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live. -- Miguel de Unamuno
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there. -- Blaise Pascal
Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him. -- Mark Dever
Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well. -- Watchman Nee
My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it. -- Suzanne Finnamore
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that -- Alanis Morissette
Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love. -- Fulton J. Sheen
The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late. -- Katie Dale
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years. -- Karen Marie Moning
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian. -- Theodore Austin-Sparks
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