#rut

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#because #express #express yourself #find #got

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. ↗

— George Bancroft

#common mind #criterion #decision #faculty #mind

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#believes #bush #despite #his #i

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#aware #brain #cognition #emotion #experience

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

#both #calling #earnest #embrace #find

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. ↗

— David Blaine

#capacity #each #imposed #minds #only

I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar. ↗

— Red Buttons

#i #leave #me #sid #tell

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am. ↗

— Stephanie Pearl-MacPhee

#knitting #truth-of-life #yarnharlot #humor

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#few #lead #little #many #much

Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor. ↗

— Chris Christie

#american citizen #between #bureaucrats #care #citizen