#truth

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#productivity #time #truth #business

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#boxes #coming #contracts #cracker #ever

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

#any #eliminated #happens #i #i am

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#children #i #i love #like #love

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#homage #pay #truth #use

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. ↗

— Shakira

#heart #i #lie #me #pretty

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. ↗

— Hu Shih

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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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